[chef] Re: The future of the deploy resource?

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 1/9/15 3:20 AM, Roland Moriz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the deploy resource and its provider [1] are very opinionated and tied to 
> deployments of Ruby on Rails applications and modeled after the original 
> Capistrano workflow defaults. But if you’re not deploying a Rails app, you’re 
> pretty much out of luck.
> Because of its name and relevance („core resource“), many new chef users fall 
> into this trap.
Is it mostly the capistrano default values that are the problem?  We 
could introduce a Chef::Config setting to turn those off, and then 
eventually make that the default.