Thanks for the explanation Ray. If it ends up not being maintained by mdsol we should at least make sure a note is added to the README.
And adding everpeace's cookbook to the supermarket would probably be a good thing too. On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Ray Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 future changes and PR's as I believe having abandoned or out of date 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 >>> >> >> >
