[chef] Anybody uses custom deploy.sh scripts within application cookbook to deploy over ssh ?

[Vladimir Skubriev < >]

Anybody uses custom deploy.sh scripts within application cookbook to 
deploy over ssh ?

For example:

You using chef solo and you have a git repo which is an application 
cookbook of one server.

This cookbook has a deploy.sh script, which is connecting to server, 
creating a container, bootstrap it with a chef-solo, install all prereqs 
and setup you application.

If this is a normal practice ?  Or may be this is not a deploy.sh or 
somthing else. Please give me an advice.

How to assing server hostname, port, password. How to store them ? And 
where to store them ?

Sometimes that deploy can take a long time.

How you save time in this use case?

I' am  using:
1. apt cache /var/cache/apt/archives mount in container
2. cache remote_files on the other filesystem, which is not recreating 
when I am delete container
3. using custom squid_deb_proxy recipe to setup container os for use our 
proxy server.

May be you can advice another useful examples ?

How I can cache rvm installing and gems ?


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Best regards,

CVision Lab System Administrator
Vladmir Skubriev