[chef] Packaging additional chef gems

[Rafał Trójniak < >]

Hello,

I ran into couple of situations, when installing additional gems using
chef_gem resource generates troubles. This hits us really hard from
time-to-time, and I want to make this more stable and predictable.

What I aim to do is:
- Reduce need to access public internet on production servers
  (access to rubygems.org)
- Lock versions of all gems
- Compile package once, install faster on destination server

I try to achieve most of that by pre-building RPM packages for gems
(first try here [1] ). After that I can store them all in on-premises
repository, and use system package manager (yum on centos) to install
chef gems.

I would appreciate any feedback/answer for questions :
- Is there better way to achieve my goals?
- Where can I find source packages/spec files for chef packages
  available on chef site ? [3]

Regards,

[1]
https://github.com/rafaltrojniak/chef-gems
[2]
http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/satellite
[3]
https://www.chef.io/download-chef-client/
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