[chef] Re: Re: 403 "Forbidden" when uploading cookbooks with large files

[Tomasz Chmielewski < >]

On 2014-04-22 15:57, Stephen Delano wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski 
> <
>  >
> wrote:
>
> > I can understand your point for some cases, but there are lots of
> > valid
> > reasons to use chef to serve files of that size anyway.
>
> Can you enumerate on these reasons? There are lots of reasons why you
> DON'T want to do this as well.

Basically, that's simplicity, especially for smaller deployments.

* no need to set up a separate webserver for file serving

* no need to worry about separate webserver auth, SSL certificates, 
credentials,

* lower learning curve for Chef - once I'm able to do simple things 
(uploading a single file should be a simple thing), I can jump to more 
complicated ones

* "large file" turned out to be ~150 MB for my link, but could be 10 MB 
for someone else with a slower link. Also, I'd argue if most people 
reading this have ~150 MB in mind if they read "multi-hundred MB 
artifact"

* if Chef wasn't designed to serve files of some sizes, it should 
complain about it (i.e. "WARN: file XYZ is larger than 10 MB, this 
exceeds Chef design"); not fail with unclear reason,

* official documentation for cookbook_file, 
http://docs.opscode.com/resource_cookbook_file.html, or 
http://docs.opscode.com/essentials_cookbook_files.html, does not mention 
potential file size issues - but could be I wasn't looking in the right 
place.


Of course I find your all points valid, too.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org