[chef] Re: Berks Vendor?

[Ranjib Dey < >]

it allows you to assemble all the cookbook (your own and community) specified in Berksfile in a single folder., you can run knife cookbook upload -o vendor_dir -a to upload them all in one shot. Also the same can be packaged in a tarball (berks does this) and ship it to a remote node to be consumed by chef-solo

chef-runner uses this to provide to quick feedback cycle during cookbook development/testing. I use a knife sync plugin which internally uses berks vendor to sync cookbook in chef server and local repo.

Vendoring is common practice in artifact management, ruby gems/bundler, mvn/artifactory etc does similar thing in their own domain, you can take a look at those as well to understand how downstream tools consume those vendorized artifacts,

cheers

ranjib

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Durfee, Bernie (GE Global Research) < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

What is ‘berks vendor’ used for? What are some examples of workflows using ‘berks vendor’?