[chef] Build a "bootstrap tarball"

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai, Chefs!

If you've built your own open source chef server, you may have used the
"chef-server::rubygems-install" method. That uses a "bootstrap" tarball
created with the various requisite cookbooks to run that recipe.

Yesterday I mentioned in my cookbook release email that the
`bootstrap-latest.tar.gz` has been updated. After releasing an update that
included chef-client 2.0.2 (fixed a syntax error), I received this mention
on twitter:

 <https://twitter.com/ieslick/status/273241285958172673>


The latest tarball was created with Berkshelf, to ensure the right
versions of released cookbooks were used, rather than whatever the
development repositories had (as was done in the past).

The Berksfile:

    site :opscode
    
    cookbook "apache2",          "= 1.3.0"
    cookbook "apt",              "= 1.5.0"
    cookbook "bluepill",         "= 2.0.0"
    cookbook "build-essential",  "= 1.2.0"
    cookbook "chef-client",      "= 2.0.2"
    cookbook "chef-server",      "= 1.1.0"
    cookbook "couchdb",          "= 1.0.4"
    cookbook "daemontools",      "= 1.0.0"
    cookbook "erlang",           "= 1.1.2"
    cookbook "gecode",           "= 1.3.0"
    cookbook "java",             "= 1.6.4"
    cookbook "nginx",            "= 1.1.0"
    cookbook "openssl",          "= 1.0.0"
    cookbook "rabbitmq",         "= 1.6.4"
    cookbook "runit",            "= 0.16.0"
    cookbook "ucspi-tcp",        "= 1.0.0"
    cookbook "xml",              "= 1.0.4"
    cookbook "yum",              "= 2.0.0"
    cookbook "zlib",             "= 1.0.0"

Then, I simply ran:


    berks install --path cookbooks

And:

    tar zcf bootstrap-latest.tar.gz cookbooks/*

We upload the tarball to an S3 bucket, but you could put it anywhere you
want, should you need to reinstall your Chef Server and want to use this
method.

Note: Chef 11 is going to bring big change to the Chef Server itself,
including how it is packaged (omnibus), distributed (full package),
installed and configured. We're working on updating the "chef-server"
cookbook accordingly.

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