Not OP, but I dislike many things about your omnibus packages. I hate packages that install into /opt (thanks for the extra tld). I hate that it's 900+MB of completely redundant junk—nginx? check, postgres, check, and entire ruby? git? curl? All of those are on my system already.
That said, I switched to it after maintaining a hand installed version and I love how I don't have to run rails schema upgrades by hand any more. I used to put off upgrading gitlab for months because it was such a pain and now I don't have to think about it at all. Rails devs could learn a lot from php devs in that regard (upgrading wordpress is absolutely trivial to upgrading gitlab).
So yeah, I love the omnibus package since it means I don't have to think about it any more; I hate the omnibus package because it's a huge redundant monolith and pure crap from the point of view of a Debian package purist.
This is a nuisance for me as a CentOS admin as well. I absolutely dislike software that decides to just plop a big bag of crap in /opt. I don't want something administering it's own PostgreSQL or nginx instance, let those choices and the administration of these services up to system administrators and alternatively provide a quick setup tool for the less inclined.
I work in a mostly .Net shop, but the couple Python+Flask apps I maintain and administer integrate with everything else the way I expect as a sysadmin. As a Linux guy I have scoffed at Windows shops for ages for the sin of "xcopy deploy" but omnibus packages are no better.
That said, I switched to it after maintaining a hand installed version and I love how I don't have to run rails schema upgrades by hand any more. I used to put off upgrading gitlab for months because it was such a pain and now I don't have to think about it at all. Rails devs could learn a lot from php devs in that regard (upgrading wordpress is absolutely trivial to upgrading gitlab).
So yeah, I love the omnibus package since it means I don't have to think about it any more; I hate the omnibus package because it's a huge redundant monolith and pure crap from the point of view of a Debian package purist.