Phil Dibowitz

> Sure, fb_chronyd could expose a separate API with some sort of only_if thing for each server list entry, but I'm nervous about putting a burden on a fb cookbook...

> Also, apologies for this absolute unit of a comment.) No apologies necessary, I much prefer it, it helps ensure a productive discussion, rather than just "well no I need...

> I was this close to suggesting method calls that write to node attributes as a solution in my last message, and now I wish I had, haha. I wouldn't...

> In the case of fb_apache, our plan so far wasn't to necessarily have one fb_apache wrapper, company-wide. Our plan was to have one wrapper cookbook per "thing", where thing...

> If etsy_service_foo needed to tweak "core" APIs based on its own API, it couldn't (unless it was only_if-able). Do you have an example that's not cron? I _think_ 95%...

> maybe there could be standard pattern for exposing lazy environment variables to crons and timers? Oh, I like that idea a lot. `config_file` => {'format' => 'json|shell|yaml', path='...', data...

Can you even have rewrites inside a directory? I thought they only worked inside a VirtualHost

Yeah I was gonna say, it definitely worked at the top level, we use it at SCALE: https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-chef/blob/main/cookbooks/scale_apache/recipes/default.rb#L203

This looks reasonable, but you need to rebase. I kicked off the tests... I know a lot are broken (sorry), but lets make sure any Apache ones pass.

Hey @davide125 or @joshuamiller01 - maybe one of you can poke the opensource folks on the status of Eric's request?