[chef] Re: sourcing ingredients from your local store for use within your recipes

[Chris McClimans < >]

For some ingredients, we might be able to use something modeled after
http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/ to auto check for new releases.

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Chris McClimans 
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 wrote:
> I wrote some knife plugins that download the latest version of
> chef_client, chef_server, ubuntu, windows, and vagrant, into the
> :file_cache_path and then populate data_bags with semantic versions,
> architecture, checksums, os ver supported etc:
>
> * https://github.com/hh/cloud-kitchen/tree/master/.chef/plugins/knife
> * https://github.com/hh/cloud-kitchen/tree/master/data_bags
>
> I then do searches in my recipes to grab the latest, but have the
> desired version able to be set as an attribute.
> .
> * 
> https://github.com/ii-cookbooks/ii-fileserver/blob/master/recipes/cache-files.rb#L2
> * 
> https://github.com/ii-cookbooks/ii-chef-server/blob/master/recipes/lxc-osc-download.rb#L7
>
> I thought about putting some of the resultant cached files into
> files/default for various cookbooks before uploading to chef server so
> end nodes need not have internet, only connections to the chef_server.
> Or for chef-solo repos/cookbooks that would have batteries included as
> this works with chef-solo if you add chef-search-solo to your runlist:
>
> https://github.com/hh/cloud-kitchen/blob/master/.chef/create-usb-solo.rb#L17
>
> These sourced ingredients / dynamic data bags backed by third party
> cached files seems interesting to me and I wanted wider feedback /
> audience.
>
> Would a set of ingredients repos be useful for the community at large
> beyond myself?
>
> https://github.com/easybake-ingredients
>
> Anyone see any interesting use cases for this?
>
> * could cookbooks depend on versioned data bags created this way?
> * the ingredient repos could be code reviewed separately from your 
> cookbooks!
> * the populated cache could be easily copied to usb or a file share etc