[chef] Re: Lock an environment's cookbooks

[Jeremy Voorhis < >]

I've done this once before using shef, and it turns out to be pretty easy.

1) Fire up shef like so

  % shef -z -c ~/.chef/knife.rb

2) Load your environment

  chef > env = Chef::Environment.load('YOUR_ENV_HERE')

3) Grab your cookbook versions and format to taste.

  chef > env.cookbook_versions
  => {"build-essential"=>"= 1.0.0", … }

4) Include your output in environments/YOUR_ENV_HERE.rb

5)  Upload

  % knife environment from file environments/YOUR_ENV_HERE.rb

HTH,

Jeremy

On Jun 21, 2012, at 8:44 PM, John Dyer wrote:

> Hey Guys,
> 
>  Is there any way to take an environment, which currently has no cookbook 
> version constraints, and set each cookbook version to the latest of whats 
> deployed on my chef server?  Would really suck to have to get the expanded 
> run list and do "knife node show" on each...  Any other way about this ?
> 
> -John