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I still don't get why Opsworks is not getting more love? I guess people don't like Chef? Opsworks has enabled hassle free deployments for us over the past thre

by jmickey 10y ago

I still don't get why Opsworks is not getting more love? I guess people don't like Chef? Opsworks has enabled hassle free deployments for us over the past three years or so at no additional cost. :)

melvinmt 10y ago
Yep, not sure where this perception of "nobody's using it" comes from but I have been using it in 2 different companies in the last 3 years as well with nothing but love. In fact, if it were the case that "nobody's using it for good reasons", maybe we should ought to know the reasons?
- eric_h 10y ago
  Been using opsworks for about a year now and while it has very significantly streamlined our provisioning/deployment tasks, "nothing but love" is not quite how I'd describe it. It does have some warts.
  - derwiki 10y ago
    Biggest wart we have is that it randomly picks a machine to run migrations on, if it's a deploy with migrations.
    - roadrunnerfreak 10y ago
      You could code up something in the deploy hook to select the master node (mostly the first instance in the layer) to run migrations and you could disable the "Run Migrations" when you deploy. I do this for the Rails app in my company.
    - eric_h 10y ago
      I actually solved this with our custom deploy script. We choose the machine that runs the migrations. The necessity of building and maintaining a custom deploy script is the biggest wart for us (though I admit that the API is pretty good, and said script has not had that much maintenance overhead).
- zalzal 10y ago
  Those of use contributing on the Guide so far have generally been companies where it's not used. I'd love to see a contribution (a few bullet points and/or links) that better covers the basics and reflects how/when it's useful.
  - zalzal 10y ago
    https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/issues/123 https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/issues/123
forwidur 10y ago
You could add more background on it into the guide. Just submit a PR! :-)
dsmithatx 10y ago
Please write an update and submit a PR. I'm moving from Ansible to Chef and would love some real world advice on what Opsworks has to offer me without another dreaded POC. It's likely the original authors aren't using Chef or just use Chef server as I do now.
- zalzal 10y ago
  Yes, true. At the moment we don't have any OpsWorks expert contributors. Hope one of you can change that! https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/issues/123 https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/issues/123
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  What's made you move away from Ansible?
alexbilbie 10y ago
What advantage does Opswork have for deployments over CodeDeploy?

by jmickey 10y ago

I still don't get why Opsworks is not getting more love? I guess people don't like Chef? Opsworks has enabled hassle free deployments for us over the past three years or so at no additional cost. :)

melvinmt 10y ago

Yep, not sure where this perception of "nobody's using it" comes from but I have been using it in 2 different companies in the last 3 years as well with nothing but love. In fact, if it were the case that "nobody's using it for good reasons", maybe we should ought to know the reasons?

eric_h 10y ago
Been using opsworks for about a year now and while it has very significantly streamlined our provisioning/deployment tasks, "nothing but love" is not quite how I'd describe it. It does have some warts.
- derwiki 10y ago
  Biggest wart we have is that it randomly picks a machine to run migrations on, if it's a deploy with migrations.
  - roadrunnerfreak 10y ago
    You could code up something in the deploy hook to select the master node (mostly the first instance in the layer) to run migrations and you could disable the "Run Migrations" when you deploy. I do this for the Rails app in my company.
  - eric_h 10y ago
    I actually solved this with our custom deploy script. We choose the machine that runs the migrations. The necessity of building and maintaining a custom deploy script is the biggest wart for us (though I admit that the API is pretty good, and said script has not had that much maintenance overhead).
zalzal 10y ago
Those of use contributing on the Guide so far have generally been companies where it's not used. I'd love to see a contribution (a few bullet points and/or links) that better covers the basics and reflects how/when it's useful.
- zalzal 10y ago
  https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/issues/123 https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/issues/123

forwidur 10y ago

You could add more background on it into the guide. Just submit a PR! :-)

dsmithatx 10y ago

Please write an update and submit a PR. I'm moving from Ansible to Chef and would love some real world advice on what Opsworks has to offer me without another dreaded POC. It's likely the original authors aren't using Chef or just use Chef server as I do now.

zalzal 10y ago
Yes, true. At the moment we don't have any OpsWorks expert contributors. Hope one of you can change that! https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/issues/123 https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws/issues/123
voltagex_ 10y ago
What's made you move away from Ansible?

alexbilbie 10y ago

What advantage does Opswork have for deployments over CodeDeploy?