[chef] Re: Build a "bootstrap tarball"

[Fletcher Nichol < >]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Joshua Timberman 
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 wrote:
> 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/*

If you want a shortcut to create a tarball from a Berksfile/Cheffile,
give orderup a spin (there's not much to it)

https://gist.github.com/3875795

I've been using this in some of my bootstrapping workflows and it's
quite handy :)

> 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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Fletcher Nichol