[chef] Re: Re: Are chef-repo used for store server data in a one place controlled by CVS?

[Vladimir Skubriev < >]

29.10.2013 09:16, Ranjib Dey пишет:

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depends. do you use lot of community cookbooks?

We use community cookbooks of course for example now we use:
apt
build-essential
chef_gem
database
fail2ban
helpers-databags
line-cookbook-master
logrotate
mysql
ntp
nut
openssl
openvpn
postgresql
ruby-helper
rvm
xfs
yum

Some of them is only for dependecies, but doesn't using in real environment: helpers-databags, postgresql, ruby-helper, xfs, yum

Now we using this cookbooks unchanged. Also we do not need to use Library Application Idealogy too.

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do you have berks/librarian integration?

So we planned to use berkshelf with a chef-repo, and may be spiceweasel. But at first I must integrate a chef-repo with a berkshelf, and later spiceweasel.

I think that everything must start from one place i.e from spiceweasel and/or git repo. Because a large number of tools and methods sometimes knocks me up. May be not enougth practice tasks in past.

I also use my cookbooks:
cbacula
cdhcpd
cldap
cftp
cinotify
cmsmtp
cnameserver
cnfs
credmine
csamba

and etc

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we use a single repo which holds only our cookbook customizations (often times  wrapper around community cookbooks) and roles/env/databags.

You do a cookbook development(cookbook customizations) in chef repo.

You follow this instruction ?:
https://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Working+with+Git+and+Cookbooks

Added specific information and maintained you customized cookbooks. Okey but how about updates from community cookbooks ? I think this is not trivial task to merge you own customizations and updates from master.

I strive to do not modify cookbooks from community. And using them as is or write my own cookbooks with using lwrp's from community cookbooks.

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  all community cookbooks are version frozen and managed by berks.

Are you save you own cookbooks in separate directory for example:

chef-repo/cookbooks
chef-repo/cookbooks-community/apt
                                             /openvpn
                                             /mysql
                                             /database
?

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We dont use version constrained environments, in fact our deployment process ensures that we have only one version of a cookbook (community cookbook as well as ours). Deployments are gated via CI -> Staging environments -> Production environment.

You use travis-ci?

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It working smooth currently, but we are really small team, if you have large groups, or if you want to a consume chef scripts that resides in services code base, then independent repos might be more useful

best

ranjib

I read about git sub trees mechanism and want to use them in a chef-repo.
I have been studying this issue for.
And may be ask question again i.e. about sub tress in chef-repo

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Best regards,

CVision Lab System Administrator
Vladmir Skubriev