[chef] Re: Re: Chef repository usage...

[Mike Adolphs < >]

The chef-repo AJ mentioned comes with some predefined rake tasks. 'rake 
install' does this all-you-can-upload thingy for your chef server.

Daily workflows are quite often discussed on the mailing list. For cookbook 
management some use berkshelf, others librarian-chef. Some use knife-guard 
for automatic updates on the chef-server, some don't. It's mostly about what 
fits best to your existing workflows and/or what you're familiar with.

For a start stick to the chef-repo layout and use the predefined rake tasks.


Regards,
Mike

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Am 23.07.2012 um 07:26 schrieb AJ Christensen 
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 >:

> I'd suggest forking the opscode/chef-repo repository and building up
> from there. Use knife to upload the contents of the chef-repo to the
> chef-server (hosted chef or otherwise), or to drive an chef-solo
> configuration (maybe with Vagrant)
> 
> Some tools to investigate that may assist:
> 
> * Vagrant - http://vagrantup.com/
> * Librarian - https://github.com/applicationsonline/librarian
> * Berkshelf - https://github.com/RiotGames/berkshelf
> * guard-knife - https://github.com/nistude/guard-knife
> * knife-table - https://github.com/heavywater/knife-table
> * knife-spork - https://github.com/jonlives/knife-spork
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --AJ
> 
> On 23 July 2012 16:54, Morgan Blackthorne 
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>  wrote:
>> Still getting up to speed with chef. I know that most people suggest 
>> putting
>> the Chef configuration into a VCS like SVN/Git/etc, but what I'm not clear
>> about is what files should be put into the repo and uploaded (say with shef
>> or knife) and what should only exist on the chef server. For day to day
>> operations, do you suggest using shef to edit and test configurations, and
>> then download the files into the VCS repo to archive, or should everything
>> be done through the VCS repo and pushed to the chef server via knife for
>> testing?
>> 
>> Is there a knife command that will take a full (properly formatted)
>> directory structure and upload it to chef in one go, or do you have to
>> upload everything individually?
>> 
>> Thanks for the help.
>> 
>> ~*~ StormeRider ~*~
>> 
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