On Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 7:03, Peter Hickman wrote:
> All our chef scripts were written with ubuntu 10.04 in mind and we had not
> correctly separated the os dependencies from the application deployment.
> Then we had to deploy to Centos :)
> 
> 

Opscode's runit cookbook supports CentOS (and other EL family distros) first class now, in version 1.0 and higher of the cookbook. It is a complete installation solution via the default recipe, and the runit_service resource is a fully developed feature complete service resource. 

http://ckbk.it/runit

I'm biased of course since I wrote the code, but I think this is the best way to manage runit if you're using chef already. 

-Joshua