[chef] Cookbook Management Workflows

[Julio Lajara < >]

Hi all, im working on trying to establish a working process for cookbook 
management.

From reading a few articles, I was thrown for a loop with the idea of 
not tracking cookbooks in the chef-repo git dir (although I was already 
treating each cookbook as its own git repo), but I get the reasoning.

What I dont get is what kind of automation exists for taking the 
cookbook requirements configured/required for each chef repo environment 
and ensuring that the chef server has a copy of the right version from 
whatever source its located at (similar to the way berkshelf/librarian 
is used to get the cookbooks for continuous integration test cases on 
individual cookbooks).

My current plan is to use berkshelf or librarian (leaning towards 
bershelf, but I read somewhere the vagrant plugin is no longer being 
developed from an old announcement?) for doing the automation on 
cookbook dl'ing for individual cookbook testing but im not sure what can 
be done at the chef repo/environment level. Is there support in 
berkshelf/librarian/vagrant or something else to upload the cookbooks to 
the server before an instance is built?

Thanks,