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

[Peter Donald < >]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Jeffrey Hulten < " target="_blank"> > 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?

I suspect if you were to take an opinionated stance on services then it would be possible to do this. One of the main reasons I would like this is to make some of the cookbooks I write more compatible with RHEL systems - right now, most of the cookbooks we create use upstart which is one of the few things that stop them being RHEL compatible.

In the next month we plan on looking on replacing upstart usage with runit (or something else?) and I had it on my list to investigate [1] to see if that could be integrated into chef. Hearsay says they have already done most of the hardwork.

[1] https://github.com/ddollar/foreman

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Cheers,

Peter Donald