Hello,
I'm looking for an (easy) way to copy Chef artifacts like cookbooks (but also specific versions), databags and policyfiles from one Chef orga to another. I want to set up a test organization and copy over all artifacts required to run cookbooks (data bags, cookbooks & policyfiles)
I've been working with knife download and knife upload which seems to work fine for databags and the latest version of the cookbook on the source Chef server, but I need different versions of certain cookbooks, not just the latest. Also I need the policyfiles.
When I check what's on the Chef server (knife list /) I see also a folder cookbook_artifacts and policies & policy_groups. These might contain the data I need, but how to work with those?
Before spending time examining those, can someone confirm this is a viable option for my use case, or is there antother recommended method to clone data from one Chef organization/server to another?
I know about the knife cookbook command, but this downloads to a special folder and this gets messy pretty quickly.
Thanks