[chef] Re: chef-solo + cookbooks development

[Dreamcat4 < >]

It should be possible to generate the metadata by running a rake task
(Rakefile in the chef-repo parent folder, a seperate git-repository for
containing your cookbooks).

Assuming its still there - as havent used it recently.

2010/10/20 Sébastien Nicouleaud 
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> I want to develop cookbooks and test them in virtualbox before using
> them in production.
>
> Having to upload my cookbooks to the chef server and run chef-client
> from virtualbox everytime I make a little change seems like overkill...
>
> So I clone my chef repository in virtualbox, write a solo.rb file to
> make my cookbooks_path point to the cookbooks dir of my repository, and
> a solo.json file to make it use my recipe.
>
> But when I run chef-solo, it says my cookbook is not found. I suppose it
> has something to do with the metadata.json file of my cookbook not being
> generated.
>
> So I try to generate the metadata using the knife cookbook metadata
> subcommand, but knife now complains about the chef server authentication
> (which I didn't set up since I wanted to use chef-solo).
>
> So, my question is: is there a way to develop and test cookbooks locally
> without any chef server ?
> Or am I missing something ?
>
> Seb
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