[chef] RE: Re: Managing Updates to Chef Server and Client

["Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS" < >]

>> I would like to manage updates to Chef Server and clients using RPM 
>> package management for CentOS servers. I see that the current way to 
>> do updates is to run the ctrl command for Chef Server and run a shell 
>> script (or manually install the rpm yourself) for chef-client.
>>
>> Is there an RPM repository we can just point to get updates to Chef for?
>> It would make detecting Security patches and updates so much easier.
>
> Yes, we're getting there -- the server products & their add-ons are now 
> hosted on Packagecloud: 
> 
https://packagecloud.io/chef/stable ;(and you can read on their website how to 
set up apt or yum repo files for
> your use)
>
>The client pipeline is being migrated early in the New Year at which point 
>the client RPMs will be there too.
>
>- Julian
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Thanks Julian!

I read their bash script here
https://packagecloud.io/chef/stable/install

And was able to generate a repo file for CentOS 6 with this link
https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/chef/stable/config_file.repo?os=centos&dist=6

Which gave me the following
[chef_stable]
name=chef_stable
baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/chef/stable/el/6/$basearch
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/gpg.key
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt


Now what I want to do is plug in the repo into Foreman so that it can 
discover them all. Unfortunately it looks like packageio doesn't allow 
drilling down because when I plugged in 
https://packagecloud.io/chef/stable/el into foreman it wasn't able to 
discover any repositories.

You can confirm this for yourself by pointing your browser to 
https://packagecloud.io/chef/stable/el, usually it will list all of the ;
repositories. Is there any way to turn on directory listing on packagecloud?

Thanks,
David