[remh]

We fixed that issue at Datadog by using Chef Omnibus:

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/new-datadog-agent-omnibus-tic...

It's more complicated than the proposed solution by nylas but ultimately it gives you full control of the whole environment and ensure that you won't hit ANY dependency issue when shipping your code to weird systems.

[sytse]

At GitLab we use Chef Omnibus too and we love it. More than 100k organizations use GitLab with Omnibus and it has lowered our support effort enormously. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/REA...

[jlees]

Looks neat. I think there's definitely a difference in the requirements for a deploy method when you can control the underlying systems (internal servers) vs have to make it work with just about any weird config users throw at you (your agent).