[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Repositories and git

[Nuo Yan < >]

If you want the cookbook to be used by the chef-client run on the server, from your workstation, you do "knife cookbook upload COOKBOOKNAME" in your chef repo to upload the cookbook. Of course on your workstation you need to specify in the config file (knife.rb) about where you store those cookbooks locally.

- Nuo

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Oliver Beattie < "> > wrote:

So, if I understand right, if I want to install a cookbook to my repository, I can only do this on the server machine itself, right?

On 18 July 2011 22:02, Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

And it should only do that if it detects it is in a git repo anyway.

--Noah

On Jul 18, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Jeffrey Hulten wrote:

> In think the only time Git is invoked is when you use knife cookbook site vendor <name>. It's really only a shortcut for people that use Git since you could do all those steps by hand...
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:
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>> Chef never uses git itself, you upload the cookbooks and other data to the chef-server via knife and clients interface with it from there (or, if you use solo, it just looks in a local folder of your choosing). If you want to use git to version things you are encouraged to (or hg, subversion, etc), but it isn't tied in to Chef itself.
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>> --Noah
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>> On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Oliver Beattie wrote:
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>>> Hi there,
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>>> This may seem like a really basic question, and I feel I've probably missed some really elemental "aha moment" that most people get within 10 seconds, but I'm struggling to understand how repositories work with git.
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>>> For instance, is it possible to clone the repository and add cookbooks to it locally? When I try it (via use of Knife) I just get an error saying /srv/chef/{something} doesn't exist. I'm assuming to get the benefits of a (D)VCS this must be possible?
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>>> Thanks (and apologies if I'm being terribly dense).
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