[chef] Re: chef + managed-directory pain

[Peter Donald < >]

Hi,

We use the following pattern quite extensively. Just say you have a collection of Xs that you want to manage exclusively through chef. We create a LWRP such as mycookbook_x that creates the x. We also publish as attribute data on the node the definitions of Xs. Either the LWRP publishes the attribute data or we have a recipe that interprets the node data and instantiates the LWRPs. Then we have a recipe that  scans the set of resources and deletes any Xs that are not present in the node data. 

We have used this for 

- files in a directory

- destinations in a message broker

- resources in an app server

- applications deployed to app server 

Etc.

We have had  a lot of success with is approach. Hth

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Cheers,

Peter Donald