[chef] Chef-Solo to Chef-Zero

["Durfee, Bernie (GE Global Research)" < >]

A common workflow I use is…

  1.  Change my cookbook
  2.  Run ‘berks package’ to build a complete tarball of my cookbook with all 
dependencies
  3.  SCP to a server
  4.  Run ‘sudo chef-solo -o “recipe[my-fancy-cookbook::default]" -r 
cookbooks-1409688848.tar.gz’ to test the cookbook
  5.  Repeat

Is this workflow possible with chef-client in local mode? Can I pass 
chef-client a tarball that was created by the ‘berks package’ command?

Thanks!