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Effortless Windows package Size and Ruby Dependency

Distributing a 1.4GB MSI to 15K servers presents some challenges and risks

The following two enhancements would be very beneficial to help better manage and throttle Chef system, network and target endpoint resources:

  1. Reduce MSI package size. Currently 1.4GB

  2. Separate Habitat client and Ruby integration within the same package, or remove dependency on Ruby.

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  • Aug 25 2020
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  • Guest commented
    26 Aug, 2020 02:20pm

    We have encountered issues in the past where this can impact the network due to the package size. This would be a welcome change.

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  • Guest commented
    25 Aug, 2020 05:15pm

    I completely agree with this. Windows Chef-client has always been massive. Delivering it at scale, even in a non effortless manner, has always been a bit of an issue even more so in this method. We need to either find a way to remove the dependency if possible or, shrink it to bare minimum for client functionality

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  • Guest commented
    25 Aug, 2020 03:19pm

    We have 15,000 servers on a prod channel, if we push a new chef infra to prod, 15,000 servers are all gong to try to download a 1.4 GB package. If anything, separating the dependency of the ruby devkit from the install of Chef Infra would help so we only have to install the 1.4 GB Ruby devkit once, and not every time we do an upgrade to Chef Infra on Windows Servers.

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