Pyload Chef cookbook reference to README #2578
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This cookbook-approach is new to me. Sounds interesting. |
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@Burnout5151: Whereas Chef focuses on whole infrastructure automation, a Chef cookbook offers the possibility to automatically install and maintain whatever the cookbook does (in this case install and maintain Pyload) for multiple OS (if the cookbook supports multiple OS) using a single source. You can decide if you execute the cookbook just once, to install Pyload, or to execute it occasionally, to install Pyload and maintain the installation, which means "hold it in that state, it has been described in the Chef cookbook". The latter would mean, if something is changed (f.e. the sys-v-init script), it will be reset by the Chef cookbook into the original state. Moreover, Chef provides you the ability to do standard system operations together with usual development standards (so called DevOps approach), such as testing (f.e. does a configfile has the content it should have?), version management, etc. With a single (or multiple) bash script this may also work, but f.e. testing in bash is rather limited (as far as I know) and also, it is not OS transparent (see above), as you can see with the provided sys-v-init scripts in the Pyload cookbook. More info on Chef can be found in the official documentation at https://www.chef.io/. To answer your second question: Chef ships with Windows and MacOS support, but the cookbook I've written does not support them. Well, thats not the major problem, as the support for Windows or MacOS could be added to the cookbook. |
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I've worked on some improvements of the cookbook and I've added support for FreeBSD 10+. So the cookbook will work now on the following platforms: ArchLinux, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat, Fedora, OpenSUSE and FreeBSD. |
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As @Burnout5151 mentioned, there has been activity on the 1.0.0 branch. If @vuolter declares version 1.0.0 useable, I will make the cookbook compatible to it as soon as possible. Could we also reference the Pyload Chef cookbook in version 1.0.0 then? |
In past three weeks I have created a Pyload Chef Cookbook available here https://github.com/gridtec/cookbook-pyload. It is tested on different platforms, such as Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS, Fedora and OpenSUSE and it supports ArchLinux. It is testd on TravisCI. It is already released in version 1.0.0 to the Chef Supermarket.
As I think that the cookbook should be referenced in the Pyload project, I added a reference to README. While I was working on that, I've also rewritten the README to markdown style and updated the domain in it (would also fix #2574).