[chef] Re: Re: Re: comparing local cookbooks to server

[Andrea Campi < >]

I'm lazy, ahem, very busy so I'm still using a set of plugins that I wrote some time ago: https://github.com/andreacampi/knife-export-plugins

I'm not sure anymore that JSON is the right thing for me, but it may help you :)

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:31 PM, John Alberts < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Haven't seen that before.  Looks interesting, though, I see a problem with using it along with knife-spork.

Assumptions

• Your roles and environments are written using the ruby DSL.

knife-spork only works with json env files and it's engrained in my workflow, so that's a no go for me unfortunatley.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Tim Smith < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Health Inspector is an awesome tool for keeping your local repo and the server in sync.  It compares it all and looks at checksums so it's not just versions.

http://bmarini.github.com/health_inspector/

Tim Smith  - Systems Engineer 
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On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:26 AM, John Alberts < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm wondering what you guys use to compare the versions of your local cookbooks to what is on the server and in a specific environment.  Seems like there should be a knife plugin for this, but I couldn't find one that does this.  The knife-env-diff plugin compares versions in two local env files, but I didn't see anything comparing local cookbook versions to env files or what's currently on the server.  Should be pretty easy to whip up a knife plugin for this, but I figured I'd ask before I bother writing one.

Thanks

John

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John Alberts