[chef] Re: Re: Re: Graphite cookbook release and breaking changes

[Greg Zapp < >]

I haven't looked at the new graphite cookbook but I was pretty happy with the current one(except that graphite needs to start from /opt/graphite/bin instead of /etc/init.d/ for some reason, so reboots would break it?).  OOTB it had graphite running, then I just created a super basic wrapper recipe to override some attributes before including the graphite recipe when I was ready to customize some stuff.  I did view the changes to the new version a few months back, but I just don't see myself moving away from the current version.  That's probably just the tragic story of most cookbooks though; I'm loath to upgrade anything because it just means fixing breaking changes to get right back to where I was :|

-Greg

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:10 PM, DV < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I welcome improvements and thank you guys for putting the time and effort into this :)

However I have one thing I don't quite understand about Chef cookbooks - the effort of making community cookbooks require a wrapper cookbook.

I honestly just want to include a recipe in a role or runlist and have it do something simple by default. Like what a default nginx/mysql/graphite/haproxy/etc setup would do if you'd install one from a package.

I understand that writing library-style cookbooks is a lot more powerful from the code perspective, but I'd be happy to see one (or a few) "ready-to-use" recipes included which I can just begin using without having to write a new recipe myself.

Just a thought... isn't really limited to graphite cookbook in particular.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Tony Burns < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Very much looking forward to this. Thanks for all the hard work!

On Aug 13, 2014, at 9:21 PM, Sean Escriva < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Chefs!

In the near future we'll be releasing a significantly different version of the graphite cookbook.

This change is a long time coming and some of you may have noticed that it's been sitting around on a branch (https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/graphite/tree/teh-futur) for some time now. While there's always refinements to be made it's been in production use at a few sites and is ready to be merged to master.

This change will move the cookbook to a library style cookbook and require your own custom wrapper cookbook to make use of it. Overall we think this fits much better with the many ways graphite can be deployed., but is definitely a breaking change from the current cookbook.

Further details are here: https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/graphite/pull/147

Example wrapper usage can be found here: https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/graphite/tree/teh-futur/example

We'll make sure to bump the version to 1.0.0 prior to merging so for anyone currently using the cookbook be sure to pin things to the current version, 0.4.8, if you're not doing so already.

As always, we love feedback so please ask related questions for PR 147 on github or irc.

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Sean | webframp

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