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

[Adam Jacob <adam@opscode.com>]

Cool - yeah, starting with a base repo resource, and then doing the
same sort of thing we do for the various package providers is the
right path:

repo "foo" do
  provider Chef::Provider::Repo::SVN
end

While also exposing

svn_repo "foo" do
end

Etc.

Adam

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Cary Penniman<cary@rightscale.com> 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



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