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

[anatoly techtonik < >]

Librarian looks like what I need. Declatatively specifying cookbooks
source for the stuff that you need is way better than trying to
pre-arranged it by hand, with shell script or Ruby code embedded in
DSL - that's for sure. It is yet another thing that would be nice to
see coming with chef-solo. Yet I still have to try it.

As for Hosted Chef I am not yet ready to abandon solo. There are
already some script and note around it as I learn technology and its
limitations.

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Jeremy Voorhis 
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> You might want to take a look at Librarian. It's like Bundler for cookbooks.
> It doesn't do anything at chef runtime as you described, but it can help you
> fetch all of your cookbooks up front.
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> https://github.com/applicationsonline/librarian
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> Jeremy
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> On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 10:50 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Matt Ray 
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>  wrote:
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> 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
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> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:57 AM, anatoly techtonik 
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> wrote:
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> 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.
>
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