[chef] Re: Setting up service with huge data files?

[AJ Christensen < >]

There's a cookbook for distributing files via BitTorrent that I'd
suggest you use for shipping around such an amazingly large binary
asset; alternatives may be S3, rsync, etc.

--AJ

On 24 September 2012 13:07, Christopher DeMarco 
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 wrote:
> So I want to provision a service for a custom app we've got.  I can template
> an initscript/launchd_plist, and put all my listening ports, identifying
> strings etc. into data bags, etc… but until I've got the datafile on disk I
> can't start the service.
>
> The datafile will be anywhere from 100GB to 2TB - far too big to provision
> during a chef run, and since it's being seeded from an existing host I won't
> have it in advance anyway.
>
> What's the best way to proceed with something like this?
>
> My current best-thinking is to write a recipe with a data bag attribute
> "filename to look for", such that if the datafile doesn't exit the recipe
> doesn't do certain things until it finds the file…
>
> Suggestions?
>
> --cmd
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> Christopher DeMarco 
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