[chef] Re: Taking temporary downtime for a service

[Ranjib Dey < >]

is this a one off task? I am using a bunch of task that are one-offs using knife-plugins and chef-apply . Tasks that does not fit very easily into periodic chef runs / does not contribute to the overall convergence are a good fit for this. knife+chef apply combo gives you the ability to interact with chef server and also chef resource dsl. Do you want to start and stop this service in every chef run ?

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jeremy Voorhis < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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