[chef] Taking temporary downtime for a service

[Jeremy Voorhis < >]

Hello,

It's common to temporarily disable a service while performing certain changes:

# recipe[monit::default]

service :monit do

  # ...

  action [:enable, :start]

end

# recipe[myapp::deploy]

service :monit do

  action [:stop]

end

# deploy happens ...

service :monit do

  action [:start]

end

I'd like to know if anybody has a good pattern for triggering start/stop actions for a service without duplicating the resource within a recipe. Alternative methods to achieve the same effect are welcome!

Thanks,

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Jeremy Voorhis