[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: lwrp based on the omnibus configuration DSL ?

[Bryan Berry < >]

hey Brian, I sometimes do compile stuff in chef runs, often for developer 
setups

as for production scenarios, i rarely use ./configure && make && make
install but i do often
do several arbitrary steps after unpacking a tarball, esp. for dynamic
languages like python or ones w/ bytecode interpreters like java

I don't actually use nginx, i just used it for an example. Most of my
current apps are either ruby, java, or python

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Brian Akins 
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 wrote:
> Not what you were asking about, but why don't you use omnibus to build these
> packages then just install them via chef-client (remote_file + gdebi/yum)?
> Maybe with some tooling around omnibus-ruby and vagrant and you could have a
> CI pipeline for them as well.
>
> It feels "odd" to be compiling a bunch of stuff at deployment time. Yes, I
> admit to doing it, but I've never been happy doing it.
>
> Shamelss plug: https://github.com/bakins/omnibus-nginx - patches welcome. A
> "directory" of omnibus projects would be helpful to avoid duplicated effort,
> or at least to be used as examples.