[chef] Re: Build a "bootstrap tarball"

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Follow-up:


I pushed the Berksfile and Rakefile to a new repository:

https://github.com/jtimberman/chef-server-bootstrap-tarball



On 11/27/12 1:44 PM, "Joshua Timberman" 
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>Ohai, Chefs!
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>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.
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>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:
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> <https://twitter.com/ieslick/status/273241285958172673>
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>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).
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>The Berksfile:
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>    site :opscode
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>    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"
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>Then, I simply ran:
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>    berks install --path cookbooks
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>And:
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>    tar zcf bootstrap-latest.tar.gz cookbooks/*
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>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.
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>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.
>
>-- 
>Opscode, Inc
>Joshua Timberman, Technical Community Manager
>IRC, Skype, Twitter, Github: jtimberman
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