Our Cassandra clusters use a third-party jar to support logging to logstash, and we deploy that jar (and its dependencies) via a scap repository. This is problematic for a few reasons:
Relies on git-fat, which as of yet has not been ported to Python 3 (see: T279509)- Requires that we maintain a separate list of deployment targets (duplicative, error-prone, and frequently forgotten)
- Lots of moving parts (Archiva, rsync, git-fat, oh my!); It is complex, brittle, and often fails in opaque ways
If nothing else, a Debian package of the dependencies would work well (and they rarely require updating).
Update: Migrated to git-lfs (priority moved to low)