[chef] Re: Re: Re: Recipe to fetch moar cookbooks

[Sascha Bates < >]

You can sign up for a Host Chef account and it's free to manage 5 nodes 
or fewer. I use this ALL THE TIME for my own testing nodes.

On 6/19/12 12:50 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> I just want to bootstrap a single machine (my workstation). Do I
> really need a server for that? I've already tried two solutions and
> came to the conclusion that it is plain impossible within a single
> reсipe to install git, do a cookbook checkout if its not present and
> then execute a recipe from this cookbook.
>
> If server has this functionality then client should have some stub
> that executed when a cookbook is not found to fix that and then
> resumes execution. Is it possible to plug into this stub with
> chef-solo?
> --
> anatoly t.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Matt 
> Ray<
>  >
>   wrote:
> > If you're just getting started and you want this feature already, you
> > may want to look at using Chef with a Chef Server, since this is one
> > of features it provides.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt Ray
> > Senior Technical Evangelist | Opscode Inc.
> >
> >  
> >  | (512) 731-2218
> > Twitter, IRC, GitHub: mattray
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:57 AM, anatoly 
> > techtonik<
> >  >
> >   wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is it possible at all to create Chef recipe that will automatically
> > > fetch required cookbooks for included recipies if required cookbook
> > > is not found locally?
> > >
> > > I am just starting Chef and I am using chef-solo.
> > >
> > > Please, CC.