[chef] Re: Chef-Solo to Chef-Zero

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Durfee, Bernie (GE Global Research) 
wrote:
> 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!  

You’d probably use `berks vendor` to get your cookbook set into a directory 
and rsync that over instead of shipping a tar archive. You’d have the same 
basic flow, slightly different commands.

--  
Daniel DeLeo