Hi Steve I'm the original author of the mdsol chef cookbook. The original motivation for writing a new cookbook from the one that was already out there at the time (Shingo's everpeace/cookbook-mesos) was that we wanted to install the mesosphere deb packages instead of compiling mesos which is the only option that cookbook-mesos provided at the time. We also had some ec2 specific configuration that we wanted to support as well as adding a little bit of integration with the exhibitor based zookeeper community cookbook by SimpleFinance. I wouldn't say my cookbook did anything AWS specific or had any dependencies on AWS but that's the environment I was in at the time and thus why the cookbook was biased towards AWS.
I'm no longer at the company under which that cookbook lives under and while they have been great about taking pull requests and any changes I want to introduce I'm not sure they are even using Mesos internally anymore so I don't know if they are motivated to continue to develop the cookbook in-house. I personally have since switched to using a modified version of the everpeace cookbook for installing Mesos via chef. So basically my bad for being a shitty custodian of mdsol/mesos_cookbook and for not contributing my updates to everpeace's cookbook back to his repo. I've been busy like everyone else but that's still no excuse. That being said I know Shingo continues to actively develop everpeace/cookbook-mesos so I'd like to get behind that cookbook with future changes and PR's as I believe having abandoned or out of date "official" community cookbooks in the chef supermarket is typically bad for the chef community and people approaching a cookbook for the first time. I'll talk to some guys at mdsol to see how they want to handle that cookbook going forward. Again sorry for the confusion and hopefully the everpeace cookbook will continue to evolve and help everybody using chef to get mesos up and running easily in any environment. Ray On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Nic Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > The mdsol cookbook author has said everyone should just use the everpeace > cookbook. I would recommend switching to it. > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Steve Domin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm using Chef to install and configure Mesos on our servers and so far >> I've been working with mdsol's cookbook >> <https://github.com/mdsol/mesos_cookbook> partly because it seems to be >> the "official" community cookbook (since it's the one in the supermarket). >> However, it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore so I was thinking of >> switching to everpeace/cookbook-mesos >> <https://github.com/everpeace/cookbook-mesos>, which is actively >> maintained. >> >> What is everyone using? >> >> Thanks, >> Steve >> > >
