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- Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Custom resources and providers
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:35:35 +0000
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Well I have written a few custom Chef Resources in my cookbooks.
Those cookbooks are: dreamcat4/site-cookbooks/restart and
dreamcat4/site-cookbooks/rvm on GitHub. Actually the file is always in
/libraries/ subfolder of the cookbook.
But whatever your preconceptions - we all recommend that you give LWRP
a shot first of all. Its reasonably powerful and if you can do it in
LWRP then thats going to be the preferred / supported way.
Although im not sure exactly what Opscode would want from you in terms
of contributing an LWRP Mercurial VCS Resource back into their
codebase - its an afterthought. I assume thats what you were really
trying to figure out there.
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith
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Hi Niall,
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A lightweight resource provider that implemented mercurial calls would be
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amazingly valuable, especially as we seek to reach out to the Python/Django
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community. Not sure what your time constraints are, but we're putting on
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Chef training at the end of the month, and Joshua would be around to give
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some direction on this. The training will cover LWRP at a high level - the
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advanced training in Ghent at the end of that week will cover it in more
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detail.
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In the meantime, if you fancy meeting up for a coffee to chat about it, or
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to pair for a couple of hours, give me a shout - I'm in London a few days a
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week.
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Best,
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S.
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On 17 Jan 2011, at 20:48, Niall Napier wrote:
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> I use Mercurial to manage my software repositories and would like to
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> deploy them with Chef. I have been unable to find any information about
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> this online and I have found limited documentation that explains how to
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> roll your own Resources and Providers.
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> Is it possible to write a Provider/Resource that implements SCM and is
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> part of a chef cookbook rather than the installed chef package? I found
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> the following page on the Opscode wiki
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> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Providers but it suggests that ;
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> implementing a Provider should be integrated into the chef package.
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> Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
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> Niall Napier
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> London, United Kingdom
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