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Great! My experience has been that packages simplify automation and play nicely with DevOps tools like Puppet and Chef. It's dead simple to write a recipe to in
by grosskur 13y ago
Great! My experience has been that packages simplify automation and play nicely with DevOps tools like Puppet and Chef. It's dead simple to write a recipe to install a package, whereas things get complicated quickly when you try to write a recipe to orchestrate a build process, e.g., git pull, install compilers, ruby-build, install gems, compile assets, etc.
To help convince folks on the value of packages, you could try pointing them toward Michael Stahnke's presentation "The Balance of Packaging vs. Puppet Manifests":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NydVbJ4xP84 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NydVbJ4xP84