[chef] Re: application builds/ci involving Chef

[Jeffrey Hulten < >]

On Jan 26, 2013, at 7:59 PM, Gourav Shah 
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 wrote:

> 
> 
> Is anyone here doing application builds (either yourself or for devs) that 
> involve any of the following:
> 
> -Local (workstation) testing of a developed app with Chef housing 
> configuration files
> 
> For local development with chef managing configs, you could try using 
> vagrant + chef  

Soon...

> -Application bundling with ant, maven, groovy, scripts, whatever that also 
> includes parallel check-ins to Chef code?
> -CI testing of an application that builds an artifact but also has 
> configurations in Chef?
> I have used Jenkins + chef.  You could also add capistrano in the mix for 
> deployment. 

I am building out our Jenkins testing of cookbooks as we speak. We use 
berkshelf to install to vendor cookbooks with dependencies, then run RSpec / 
Chefspec to test them and Foodcritic to ensure they meet our standards.

Our script looks like this (assuming a job named "cookbook-[COOKBOOK NAME]", 
i.e. "cookbook-users")

COOKBOOK=${JOB_NAME#cookbook-}

cd $WORKSPACE 
set -x
bundle install --without development --deployment
bundle exec berks install --path vendor/cookbooks
bundle exec rspec --format CI::Reporter::RSpec
bundle exec foodcritic $WORKSPACE/vendor/cookbooks

By including ci-reporter in my gem list I can get rspec to generate JUnit 
style reports and use those to define health of the jobs.

> 
> Thanks
> Gourav


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