[chef] Re: Re: Berks Vendor?

[Brian Pitts < >]

I've used `berks vendor` to generate tarballs with all the cookbooks
needed to install a previous employer's products. The cookbooks were
provided to customers alongside other artifacts, and the documented
installation procedures invoked chef-solo.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Ranjib Dey 
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 wrote:
> 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)
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>  wrote:
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>> What is ‘berks vendor’ used for? What are some examples of workflows using
>> ‘berks vendor’?
>>
>



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Brian Pitts
Web Operations Engineer