Re: some questions

[AJ Christensen <aj@junglist.gen.nz>]

Chef client will cache all cookbooks available from the Chef server  
each time.

Templates and Files are lazy loaded.

Regards,

AJ

On 17/04/2009, at 7:18 PM, snacktime wrote:

> - I noticed the client looks for cookbooks in /var/chef, which is  
> what I have the cookbooks path set to on the server.  Is it getting  
> this value from the server, or is that a default value?
>
> - It seems that the client must have all the cookbooks locally, it  
> can't add new cookbooks from the server that it doesn't have.  Is  
> that right?  Seems like that would be a desirable feature, although  
> I can see how calculating all the dependencies could be a pain.  Or  
> maybe an alternative could be the client can set a list of cookbooks  
> in the attributes somewhere, and then download whatever cookbooks  
> are not present at each run?  So then say you want to push out a new  
> recipe to a bunch of clients you just update their attributes on the  
> server and you are done.
>
> Chris