[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Is Berkshelf vagrant plugin are usable only with a application cookbooks instead of pure site cookbooks ?

[Torben Knerr < >]

Hi Vladimir,

yes, you have to read about the tools and try them out so that you can decice on your own, but I think you are on the right track and betting on the tools and best practices which have proven in the community.

Vagrant-berkshelf works both with application cookbooks or normal cookbooks, it just ensures that the cookbooks defined in the `Berksfile` are available for the Chef run in the VM.

Afaik vagrant-berkshelf also works with Chef Server (it will `berks upload` the cookbooks before starting the VM). You could also check out chef-zero / vagrant-chef-zero which is an in-memory Chef Server perfectly suitable for Cookbook testing.

Also double-check if you really need Chef server or whether Chef solo is sufficient for your needs. The main arguments for using Chef server is if you are using search. Databags, environments and roles also work fine with Chef solo.

For lxc and vagrant you might also want to check out this blog post:

http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2013/04/28/lxc-provider-for-vagrant/

Cheers,

Torben

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Eduardo Dias < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Look, Berkshelf you use to solve dependencies, Vagrant you use for chef-solo, and Virtualbox is your virtual machines. Then, what I ma proposing it to put all working together.

1. This is for testing cookbooks with chef-solo on workstation? Yes
2. To upload defined in Berksfile cookbooks(from working machine or somewhere else but with berks instead of chef-client) in a virtual machine provisioned by vagrant ? Yes

Why not use only vagrant with defined chef cookbooks ?

if you use chef-solo you use Vagrant + Virtual Box, if you want to deploy in the cloud  you need to configure Vagrant file with other config , but always Berkshelf will be present.

2013/10/30 Vladimir Skubriev < " target="_blank"> >

30.10.2013 17:05, Eduardo Dias пишет:

You need to download a box (like ubuntu), create a vagrant file, and vagrant up.
vagrant box add <name> <url> (look at Vagrant to get the corerct url)

Simple Vargrant file:
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.hostname = "<server_name>"
  config.vm.box = "<box_name>"
  config.berkshelf.enabled = true

To be honest I can not understand: "What is the role of plugin enabled by `config.berkshelf.enabled = true` ?"

or

What is the role of berks in virtual machine created by vagrant, with config defined option `config.berkshelf.enabled = true` ?

1. This is for testing cookbooks with chef-solo on workstation?

2. To upload defined in Berksfile cookbooks(from working machine or somewhere else but with berks instead of chef-client) in a virtualmachine provisioned by vagrant ?

So I used opensource chef-server in our localnetwork. And most of all i'am interested in deploy our and community cookbooks on production virtual machines (lxc).

May be my questions is not good. May be I need some time to read a documentation of berks and vagrant. There is no doubt of course.

Why not use only vagrant with defined chef cookbooks ?

Thank youf or help.

# the lines below is to forward ports
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 8080, guest: 8080
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 8443, guest: 8443

# the line below must be used if you need to sync a local directory with the remote
  config.vm.synced_folder "../../", "/repo"
  config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
# the line below is used if you need a proxy
#    config.proxy.http  = "http://web-proxy.corp.hp.com:8080/"
#    config.proxy.https = "http://web-proxy.corp.hp.com:8080/"
# the chef .son you use to pass attributes that you need to rewrite if you use Vagrant for example.
    chef.json = {
    }
    chef.run_list = [
      "recipe[xxxx::default]",
      "recipe[minitest-handler::default]"
    ]
  end
end

vagrant ssh --> to connect to the provisioned system

The vagrant up, destroy, reload, ssh must be ran at the same directory that you have Vagrant file

Eduardo

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Best regards,

CVision Lab System Administrator
Vladmir Skubriev

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Atenciosamente,

Eduardo