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

[Andrew Shafer < >]

Just eyeballing, it looks like some how 'current_dir' isn't getting
set to what you expect probably because of a nuance of how chef loads
the file.

You can trouble shoot that if you like, but I highly recommend you
check out vagrant.

vagrant is a great way to dev cookbooks.

If you like virtualbox, chances are you'll love vagrant.

I do.



2010/10/20 Sébastien Nicouleaud 
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 >:
> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
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