[chef] Re: Re: source repositories as resources?

[Ian Ragsdale <ian.ragsdale@gmail.com>]

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about.  I think that could work  
really well.  Chef-deploy does look pretty interesting, but I think it  
might be overkill for my needs as well.

- Ian

On Jul 1, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Cary Penniman wrote:

> Ian,
>
> I'm just sitting down to address this same issue -- I need  an  
> interface generic enough for both git, subversion, and maybe even a  
> tarball on s3.
>
> Ezra's chef-deploy is really great but a bit overkill for me.  I  
> just want a simple "pull" functionality.  I don't need all the  
> capistrano stuff.
>
> This is what I am thinking for a resource:
>
> repo "some_src_url" do
>   branch "master"
>   dest "where_to_place_it"
>   user "some_user"
>   cred "password_or_sshkey"
> end
>
> Would this be of use to you?  Do you think that this interface is  
> complete enough to deal will all three (git,svn,s3) use cases?
>
> -Cary P
>
>
> On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Arjuna Christensen wrote:
>
>
> On 1/07/2009, at 10:18 AM, <ian.ragsdale@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello all.  One of the things that I'd like chef to be able to do  
> > is check out
> > a certain version of our source to be installed.  This makes more  
> > sense to me
> > than using something like Capistrano to maintain the correct  
> > version of the
> > source.
> >
> > I'm sure that I could use a script to do this, but it seems like it  
> > would make
> > more sense to have Chef treat a source repository as a resource,  
> > which could
> > have providers for git, subversion, etc.  Then you could easily set a
> > repository URL, authentication info, and revision numbers or  
> > branches, etc.
> >
> > Is anybody else using chef to manage a source repository?  How are  
> > other people
> > handling this?
>
> Ezra from EngineYard did great work with Chef-Deploy, a Capistrano  
> replacement driven by Chef. It is used throughout EY's Solo and Flex  
> platforms, supports awesome push-based-hooking and other magic.
>
> http://github.com/ezmobius/chef-deploy/tree/master
>
> Hope this helps! :)
>
> --
> AJ Christensen, Software Engineer
> Opscode, Inc.
> E: aj@opscode.com