[chef-dev] Design / proposal for an nginx available site resource

["Cummings,Steven" < >]

Hello chef-dev!

First, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Steven Cummings, and I'm a software developer at Cerner Corporation. We have a corporate contributor agreement and I've recently been added to it. I start learning chef about 1.5 months ago, with a heavy emphasis towards:

• leaning on community resources
• writing wrapper cookbooks the berkshelf way
• based on the above writing as little code as possible for my specific application

As a result of my approach I'm identifying the code that I end up writing which I think aligns with opportunities in the community cookbooks. My initial focuses have been on python and nginx. This message is about an idea that I have for the nginx cookbook. I have proposed the design here [1] as I wish to have some discussion about it before just taking the code that I have and "throwing it over the wall" on what might be a premature pull request.

The community cookbook is good for basic installation and configuration. However, in the nginx community there are conventions (which match those of apache httpd2) to have sites-available and sites-enabled config folders, whereby vhosts are made available in the first folder, and then activated by sym'linking them into the second folder. The resource I implemented is called "nginx_available_site" which takes attributes and generates the site-specific config. Generally, a "site" is for a specific host that is being listened on, and reasonable attributes for this resource might include things like the upstreams for load-balancing, server-specific locations and gzip options, etc.

If you agree that this resource might be worthy of the community cookbook, please go help discuss it's design here [1]. If you would like to discuss whether it should be included at all, perhaps we do that here.

Thanks for your time!

[1] https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-4323

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