[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: using berkself and solo, does file layout this look correct?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

http://docs.opscode.com/essentials_roles.html  ;

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Daniel DeLeo


On Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM, S Ahmed wrote:

> Can I see any example of a ruby formatted role? Not sure what the file name 
> is or where the file should be?
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> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> > On Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 8:41 AM, S Ahmed wrote:
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> > > any comments about if I am doing it correctly?
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> > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:09 PM, S Ahmed 
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> > > > Hello,
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> > > > After breaking the cookbook using:
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> > > > > berks cookbook testcookbook
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> > > > I then created the following:
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> > > > /roles/web.rb (http://web.rb) (http://web.rb) # front-end web servers
> > > > /roles/db.rb # db server
> > > > /roles/search.rb # search servers
> > > >  
> > > > I then created a seperate json file for each chef-solo role:
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> > > > /solo/web.json (http://web.json) (http://web.json)
> > > > /solo/db.json
> > > > /solo/search.json
> > > >  
> > > > I will then use berkself vendor to save to /cookbooks
> > > >  
> > > > I then run chef solo on each server role using the appriopriate .json 
> > > > file.
> > > >  
> > > > Is this reasonable?
> > > >  
> > > > thanks!
> > chef-solo is capable of using ruby formatted roles directly, so you can 
> > just package those up and ship them to your nodes without converting to 
> > json.
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> > Also, berkshelf can package your cookbooks for chef-solo using the `berks 
> > package` command, see the "PACKAGING COOKBOOKS” section of 
> > http://berkshelf.com
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> > Daniel DeLeo
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