[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Best practices for keeping repo and server sync'd

[Clif Smith < >]

We have a script that runs via cron to:
  - git pull from master branch
  - determine if there are new (versions of) cookbooks
  - if run as "report", log that there are newer cookbooks than what's on the 
server (which Nagios monitors)
  - if run as "upload":
    - upload and freeze new/updated cookbooks
    - create and build a new production environment file
    - upload databags
    - upload roles

It's working like a charm for prod but we need to determine our workflow for 
dev and stage. 

 cjs
  
On Apr 9, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Jesse Campbell wrote:

> Folks that are using git hooks, guard, etc:
> Are you running post-commit hooks on your own workstation?
> I'm looking into running from the chef server itself, but trying to
> figure out the best workflow for one of our devs to push cookbook
> updates...
> 
> Right now I'm thinking:
> git push to github
> go to chef management console
> push button that runs rake install in the local repository
> 
> but since modifying the management console is out of scope for the
> time being... i'm thinking up alternatives.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Jesse
> 
> 2012/4/7 Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier 
> <
 >:
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:09 AM,  
>> <
 >
>>  wrote:
>>> hello,
>>> 
>>> guard-knife seems very interesting.
>>> 
>>> As the initial sender of this post, we are using subversion, and we have a
>>> small bash script like this
>>> 
>>> cd /root/svnChef/trunk
>>> svn update
>>> # TODO: Backup cookbooks
>>> knife cookbook upload -a
>>> 
>>> We are never uploading a cookbook directly to the server, all the cookbook
>>> changes has to go through subversion commit.
>>> 
>>> By the way, is there a way for exporting all cookbooks from the server, 
>>> such
>>> knife cookbook export -a, please ?
>>> That's what we would like to do for replacing '# TODO: Backup cookbooks'
>>> 
>> 
>> There is not such option. I think the closer thing is to do:
>> knife cookbook list | while read cb ; do knife cookbook download $cb
>> -d backup/ ; done
>> 
>> Or something similar.
>> You could save the last version (as in the example), all the versions,
>> commit to the svn, etc, but I guess it must be (by now) still as a
>> script or Rake task.
>> 
>> I was thinking about make my own Knife plugin to sync the repos, but
>> probably it would be interesting to have some sync functionalities at
>> the Knife's core...
>> 
>> --
>> Juanje