[chef] Re: Re: chef-solo + cookbooks development

[Sébastien Nicouleaud < >]

Thanks, Dreamcat4.
I found the rake task, but it is just a wrapper for knife.

It finally worked by creating a .chef/knife.rb file containing:
node_name "virtualbox"

But it keeps complaining about the missing cookbook.
Running chef-client with strace gives the following:

$ sudo strace chef-solo -c solo.rb -l debug 2>&1 | grep cookbooks
open("/cookbooks", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|
O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/site-cookbooks", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|
O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

I don't know why chef-solo is looking for cookbooks in /cookbooks
and /site-cookbooks.
Please note I have no /etc/chef directory.

Symlinking the cookbooks/site-cookbooks subdirs of my chef repo to /
works.
But that's ugly :)

Here is the content of my solo.rb file:
$ cat solo.rb 
current_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)

file_cache_path current_dir
cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/cookbooks",
"#{current_dir}/site-cookbooks"]
json_attribs "#{current_dir}/solo.json"
role_path "#{current_dir}/roles"

And my solo.json file:
$ cat solo.json 
{
  "run_list": [ "recipe[my_cookbook]" ]
}

And I run chef-solo like this:
$ sudo chef-solo -c solo.rb

I downloaded and installed rubygems manually, and I'm using the latest
chef gem.

Any idea ?


Le mercredi 20 octobre 2010 à 13:16 +0100, Dreamcat4 a écrit :
> 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 
> <
 >:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >