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

[AJ Christensen < >]

Here we go: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/bittorrent

Cheers,

--AJ

On 24 September 2012 13:21, AJ Christensen 
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 wrote:
> 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
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> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Christopher DeMarco 
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>> +1-412-708-9660
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