[chef] Re: RE: State of Application Deployment and Chef

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On May 26, 2015, at 5:20 PM, Nguyen, Dang 
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 wrote:

> What is the use case for Halite vs distributing and using the gem as a 
> chef_gem install and "require" in a recipe? Just curious.

You cannot install gems during the library loading phase of Chef, the 
earliest point you could really do it is during recipe compile and even that 
is being frowned on lately. Packaging the code in to a cookbook means it is 
loaded very early on in the converge cycle which matters if you want LWRPs to 
be able to use your code, or other cookbooks to extend your 
resources/providers.

--Noah

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