[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Berkshelf with chef-repo: am I doing it right?

[Torben Knerr < >]

The Chef solo / Vagrant / Berkshelf / Application Cookbooks workflow that works well for me described here:
http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2013-10/msg00307.html

The problem with a top-level Berksfile in the chef-repo is that you are assuming a single consistent set of cookbooks across *all* the nodes you manage via that chef-repo.

I tend to stick with the "one application cookbook per node" paradigm and resolve each application cookbook's dependencies into a dedicated sub-directory so that their transitive dependencies don't clash.

Finally, I'm calling the "infrastructure repo" because of using one chef-repo like structure per "infrastructure", where infrastrcture means just a set of correlated nodes.

See the example here:
https://github.com/tknerr/sample-infrastructure-repo

Cheers,
Torben

On Nov 29, 2013 1:23 PM, "Cassiano Leal" < "> > wrote:

I have more than one Chef Server, each with their own set of data bags, roles, nodes, cookbooks, etc.

While I don’t commit my cookbooks to the chef-repo’ VCS, I still maintain a cookbooks/ directory in it (which is on .gitignore), and keep everything that’s part of that Chef infrastructure under the chef-repo root path.

Cookbooks and their dependencies are managed and uploaded using Berkshelf, so I only have the cookbooks I’m working on under chef-repo/cookbooks.

I don’t ever use "knife cookbook upload”. Instead I use “berks upload” from the cookbook’s root.

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On Friday, November 29, 2013 at 09:54, Vladimir Skubriev wrote:

29.11.2013 14:47, Kevin Yank пишет:

On 29 Nov 2013, at 2:27 pm, Kevin Yank < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Is this how others are using Berkshelf with a chef-repo, or have I missed something?

Answering my own question, I finally stumbled on a GitHub Issue that explains it all. If only the docs did as well!

I’ve posted my own summary for the curious:

https://github.com/berkshelf/berkshelf/issues/535#issuecomment-29508430

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Kevin Yank

Chief Technology Officer, Avalanche Technology Group

http://avalanche.com.au/

Thank you. I see you last comment and this is good explanation for problem.

I started with a my own "community" chef-server and work with it a year ago.

I have a very long time for decide: "I need it(chef-server) or not"

I could not decide using only chef-server, using chef-solo with berks or

use server with berks.

What stopped you? What do you choose?

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CVision Lab System Administrator

Vladmir Skubriev