Scalper provides some utility functions that make your life with scalarium a little bit easier:

scalper show # show current json configuration scalper context # show available contexts (context == scalarium action) scalper context # switch to context scalper list # list the chef recipes of the current context scalper list all # list all chef recipes available scalper update # update custom cookbooks (only public git repos are supported) scalper update self # update scalper scalper tail # tail log of the currently running process (uses "less") scalper exec # execute all recipes of the current context scalper exec # only execute the specified recipes (separate by comma without blanks)
scalper info # output the most important paths

install (as root) in any running scalarium instance with:

bash < <(curl -L http://github.com/moviepilot/scalper/raw/master/scalper-installer)

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Furthermore, a grease monkey script to open ssh sessions of the type ssh://ubuntu@ In order to install the grease monkey script, click on this tiny little helpful link:

http://github.com/moviepilot/scalper/raw/master/scalarium-ssh-opener.user.js