Rez can be quite useful in visual effects pipelines. It's a handy package and environment manager.

In this post I will list some helpful resources for getting started with rez. Rather than trying to explain how to work with it, I will link some resources and sample package repositories that might be helpful when setting it up.

Docs, various resources

• First and foremost take a look at the rez documentation
• GitHub Discussions contain a lot of useful info
• Make sure to join the rez channel in ASWF's Slack
  • Thanks for suggesting resources for this post!
• Colin Kennedy's Rez Academy videos
• ASWF's YouTube channel
• rez-config has a lot of information, some is outdated, but some threads have helped me understand how rez is meant to be used and how various studios have implemented it into their pipelines
  • It now seems to be getting archived and migrated to ASWF
• Marcus Ottosson's rez resources, experiments
  • Some information in those links is outdated, or not part of the official rez release, but reading through it helped me understand rez better and see some of the issues with rez as well
  • https://github.com/mottosso/bleeding-rez
  • https://github.com/mottosso/bleeding-rez/wiki/Quickstart
  • https://mottosso.com/bleeding-rez
  • https://github.com/mottosso/rez-for-projects
  • https://allzpark.com
• Liam Collod's articles
• Jean-Christophe Morin's, Andres Mendez's and Manuel Köster's rez lists
• Thorsten Kaufmann's Minimal rez setup on Windows video
• “Rez tute vids”
  • Now a little bit outdated video tutorials

Sample rez package repositories

• https://github.com/mottosso/rez-for-projects/tree/master/dev
• https://github.com/mottosso/rez-bundles
• https://gitlab.com/mottosso/rez-internal-example
• https://github.com/predat/rez-packages
• https://github.com/mtb-tools/rez-packages
• https://github.com/getblessing
• https://github.com/OSS-Pipeline
• https://github.com/Jawabiscuit/rez-packages
• https://github.com/OlivierArgentieri-rezpackages
• https://github.com/Colorbleed/rez-packages
• https://github.com/UTS-AnimalLogicAcademy/open-source-rez-packages
• https://github.com/anderslanglands/rez-recipes
• https://github.com/est77/rez-packages
• https://github.com/davidlatwe/rez-packages
• https://github.com/JellyfishPictures/OpenAssetIO-rez-pkgs
• https://github.com/j0yu?tab=repositories&q=rez
• https://github.com/ArtFXDev/silex-rez/tree/prod/packages
• https://github.com/PiloeGAO?tab=repositories&q=rez
• https://github.com/piratecrew
• https://github.com/nerdvegas?tab=repositories&q=rez

Rez alternatives

Some might be discontinued, or solving a slightly different problem, but might be still relevant when researching alternatives.

• https://getspk.io
  • TPC '21 talk about SPK, SPFS (make sure to watch the earlier Rez section as well)
• https://github.com/PeregrineLabs/Ecosystem
• https://github.com/themill/wiz
• https://github.com/NixOS/nix
• https://dev.to/chadrik/using-spack-to-build-the-vfx-refence-platform-5788
• https://medium.com/filmologic/config-management-in-a-vfx-studio-saltstack-c9a0abcbd6a7

If you know of more rez resources, or alternatives then please let me know, I will update this post.