[chef] Re: Re: Re: Is Supermarket replacing Berkshelf-API server?

[AJ Christensen < >]

Another alternative if you need a /universe endpoint is to use Goiardi
[0], the golang chefserver. It's extremely light weight. The
functionality was added recently! [1]

It can run in-memory with optional journals to disk and is completely
suitable for a few hundred cookbooks. For over a couple of thousand
(the full Supermarket universe has been tested!) you'll want
MySQL/PGSQL.

we have heard some reports of users making use of temporal goiardi
instances as part of continuous integration pipeline "environment
generators" where a job can push cookbooks to, automatically!

cheers,

--aj

[0] https://ctdk.github.io/goiardi/
[1] https://github.com/ctdk/goiardi/blob/master/CHANGELOG#L21-L24

P.S:

launch like this:
`goiardi -VVVV -I 127.0.0.1 -H localhostchef.junglist.io -P 1025 -i
goiardi.index -D goiardi.data -A --disable-webui --log-events`

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Christopher Webber
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 wrote:
> So here is where I stand on things (full disclosure, Supermarket is kinda 
> my thing at Chef):
>
> The Berkshelf API server is perfect if what you want to do is index what 
> you Chef Server has. It is simple and lightweight.
>
> On the other hand, if what you are trying to do is build an internal 
> community around cookbooks and want to have a Berkshelf endpoint that has 
> more than what is on your Chef Server, Supermarket may make more sense but 
> there is more involved in running it, especially since we haven’t built an 
> omnibus package yet.
>
> Supermarket at a base level is a rails app with sidekiq, using postgres and 
> redis. If you plan to support more than one frontend you will need to have 
> an S3 compatible backend for storage as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
> — cwebber
>
> On Aug 25, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
> <
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>  wrote:
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>> On Monday, August 25, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Durfee, Bernie (GE Global Research) 
>> wrote:
>>> Should I be spending time setting up a Berkshelf API server or a 
>>> Supermarket server?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bernie
>>
>>
>> The answer to this is, it depends on what you want to do.
>>
>> Supermarket is open source and you are certainly welcome to set up your 
>> own if you like. To run it, you’ll need to manage a few services (I 
>> haven’t done this personally, but I think you at least need the 
>> supermarket service and a service called oc-id that uses oauth2 to 
>> authenticate you to supermarket using your enterprise chef credentials).
>>
>> That said, we have accepted an RFC to implement a “universe” endpoint for 
>> chef-server that will provide a tool like berkshelf with the data it needs 
>> to solve dependencies so you can host your cookbooks on your regular Chef 
>> server. See: 
>> https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc014-universe-endpoint.md
>>
>> How are you using Berkshelf API now (or, what configuration were you 
>> considering)?
>>
>> --
>> Daniel DeLeo
>>
>>
>>
>