[chef] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Proper Berksfile, Berksfile.lock usage?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Azul wrote:

> and as soon you start tgz'ing your cookbooks with Berks package and 
> treating them as versioned artifacts, then you may notice that you simply 
> need to fetch a particular version of you cookbooks artifacts directly from 
> your server, or push it into them and then run chef client, or knife 
> bootstrap from a build box.
> Then you discard the use of chef environments, chef environment attributes, 
> cookbook constrains and the chef server itself as you can retrieve metadata 
> from other sources and consume it within your cookbooks.
> now you have a fairly simple workflow where you can mix and match servers 
> running different levels of chef code and upgrade them as needed in a 
> controlled manner.

FWIW, Policyfiles do all of this pretty much automatically.


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Daniel DeLeo