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

[Sean OMeara < >]

try something like this in the compile phase : https://gist.github.com/3773868

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Christopher DeMarco 
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> Assuming that I don't want to distribute the file via Chef, how would I 
> best divide the recipe into bits that could run before the file arrives and 
> bits that can't run until afterwards?
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> And if I did want to use that BT or some other custom method to provision 
> such a huge file, does a recipe (or indeed an entire chef-client run!) 
> block on that file transfer?  Or can I make chef do stuff / sleep while 
> it's "waiting" for the huge file to arrive?
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> On Sep 23, 2012, at 9:21 PM, AJ Christensen 
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>> 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
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