[chef] Re: AWS OpsWorks custom

[Peter Donald < >]

Hi,

We use a variant of the braid tool to do something similar to this.
Braid will merge in a remote git repository into a local git
repository and allow you to periodically update from the source repo.
The original author stopped looking after the product so we use a
variant you can install via "gem install realityforge-braid"

So a sample workflow may be

$ mkdir mycookbooks
$ cd mycookbooks
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in .../mycookbooks/.git/
$ vi README
$ git add README
$ git commit -m "My First commit"
[master (root-commit) 407698e] My First commit
 0 files changed
 create mode 100644 README
$ braid add https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/sql_server.git  sql_server
Braid: Adding mirror of 'https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/sql_server.git'.
Braid: Setup: Creating remote for 'sql_server'.
Braid: Added mirror at 'd9702f8'.
$ ls -a
.  ..  .braids  .git  README  sql_server

And then you can import as many cookbooks as you want, potentially
upgrade them at a later point via

$ braid update sql_server/
Braid: Updating mirror 'sql_server'.
Braid: Mirror 'sql_server' is already up to date.

You can also edit the local cookbook and commit changes. It is easy to
view these changes via

$ braid diff sql_server/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 34e8973..a9e6356 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Description

 Installs and configures Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 server and
client.  By default the Express edition is installed, but the
`sql_server::server` recipe supports installation of other editions
(see __Usage__ below).

+Look at me - I am local changes
+
 Requirements
 ============

You can see the list of mirrors via something like

$ braid list

Braid: Listing all mirrors.
=======================================================
sql_server (Locally Modified)


HTH

-- 
Cheers,

Peter Donald