[chef] Re: Re: Thoughts on service monitoring...

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Nov 21, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Jeffrey Hulten wrote:

> There are multiple ways to keep a service up from runit to bluepill, but everyone uses something different. I don't know a lot about these tools, would there be a way to make a generalized resource or an extension to the service resource that managed this?
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I would really love to find some tuits to make the service resource truly a generic interface for "here is something that should be running". Right now it is kind of generic except for the things people actually use (except upstart which is included). service "whatever" do provider :runit end should totally be a thing.

+1 

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:31 AM, AJ Christensen < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

> Are you considering a generic LWRP w/ multiple providers (sub resources?) for each of the common supervisors?

I would love to see that. One of my pet peeves is that *a lot* of cookbooks have a giant "case node[:init_style]", and most only support a minority of distros.

A resource for that would be very useful, whether that's part of service or not. Totally non-trivial, but very useful.