[chef] Nginx reverse proxy: where to put config

[Andrew Miklas < >]

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a role that installs nginx using the "nginx"  
cookbook and configures it to reverse proxy a bunch of unicorn  
instances configured using the "application" cookbook.

I need to put an nginx config file into /etc/nginx/sites-available,  
but I'm not sure in which cookbook the template & associated recipe  
should live.  There are three options, from what I can tell:

a) I could put it into the nginx cookbook.  This would involve  
creating a recipe that looks somewhere (a node attribute, maybe?) for  
a role name, and then creates an nginx config file containing a vhost  
and an upstream block containing the addresses of all nodes in the  
named role.  This puts logic into the nginx config that is reverse- 
proxy specific (which might not be so bad, I suppose).

b) I could put it into the application cookbook.  But then this ties  
"application" to nginx, which seems wrong

c) I could create a new cookbook to contain the recipe and template to  
generate the config.  This seems like it's overkill though.


Any ideas?  My guess is that option (a) is the way to go, but it seems  
like this is something that would have come up before.  Maybe I'm  
missing something obvious?


Thanks,


Andrew


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Andrew Miklas
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