[chef] Re: Re: Using Chef offline

[Tim Leicy < >]

This works fine for getting the cookbooks and the cookbook dependencies themselves, such as the recipes, etc but I am looking for a way to get the files that are specified inside of the cookbooks.

For example in the opscode boost cookbook: https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/boost/blob/master/recipes/source.rb there is a call to get a remote file

remote_file "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/#{node['boost']['file']}" do

  source node['boost']['source'] + node['boost']['file']

  mode "0644"

  action :create_if_missing

end

This makes an http request to sourceforge.

I am looking for a way that these remote files can be 'cached' or downloaded on my internet connected machines so that I can then transfer the data to my non internet connected machines without having to modify anything in the cookbooks themselves I don't think that there is anyway for Berkshelf to do this but I maybe wrong.

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Use chef-solo or chef-client local mode. Berkshelf can handle downloading the cookbooks and putting them in a format either of those can use (berks vendor).

--Noah

On May 19, 2015, at 7:18 PM, Tim Leicy < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is a way to have chef pre-download cookbook dependencies from remote urls into a "cache".
> I have a lot of computers that have no internet access but would like to use chef and community cookbooks to manage them. It is a real pain to manually download the remote files and override the file locations in the cookbooks. I have looked around but really haven't found a good way to manage this, but maybe I missed something. Any suggestions? If there is currently no capability for this, any suggestions on how I should modify chef to incorporate this functionality?
>
> Thanks!
>  Tim