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

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Torben Knerr wrote:

>  
> @Daniel thanks for the policyfile blog post teaser, have been waiting for a 
> good
> tutorial style summary already :-)  
>  
> ​Wondering:  
> does it work  
> ​with plain chef solo / zero too (e.g.
> `chef-client -z --policyfile ...`),
> ​or is it tighly coupled with chef provisioning for now​?

I glossed over it in the blog post, but there is a `chef export` command that 
puts your policy lock and cookbooks into a directory structure that is 
understood by local mode. This is how the test kitchen driver works. Note 
that Chef Zero doesn’t have the “native” policyfile APIs yet, so this works 
in compatibility mode. It also requires you to set the `versioned_cookbooks` 
setting in your client.rb. If you find it helpful, the code for the TK 
provisioner is here: 
https://github.com/chef/chef-dk/blob/master/lib/kitchen/provisioner/policyfile_zero.rb
  
>  
>  
> ​Cheers, Torben​
>  
--  
Daniel DeLeo