Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

I’m inferring that what I need is to set up my internal Git server as a Berkshelf API server? Are these still valid?

Chris

From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 1:11 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Oooops. I somehow entered the v2.0 Berkshelf docs without noticing...

Sorry for the disinformation :-/
Am 08.04.2015 02:11 schrieb "Drew Blessing" <Drew.Blessing@buckle.commailto:Drew.Blessing@buckle.com>:
chef_api in Berkshelf is deprecated. See GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf: A Chef Cookbook manager

At this time I believe the Berkshelf API server or internal supermarket are required. We use Berkshelf API server and it works great.

On Apr 7, 2015, at 6:57 PM, Torben Knerr <mail@tknerr.demailto:mail@tknerr.de> wrote:

Nope, you don't have to install anything additional afaik, you can
simply use your Chef Server as an artifact source for Berkshelf.

This is probably what you are looking for:
http://berkshelf.com/v2.0/#chef-api-location

You can set that globally in your ~/.berkshelf/config.json to keep
your individual Berksfiles clean.

Cheers, Torben

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Fouts, Chris <Chris.Fouts@sensus.commailto:Chris.Fouts@sensus.com> wrote:
Yes I do have internal Chef 12 Enterprise server. So how can I set it up as a Berkshelf API server, by installing this in my Chef server GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf-api: Berkshelf dependency API server

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.demailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 7:17 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Oh, right. I thought only your (2nd level) role cookbooks would be hosted internally. If you have internally hosted dependent cookbooks like "common-log" etc deep down in your dependency graph you must inlcude their inhouse git location in the top-level Berksfile. The nested Berksfiles are not evaluated.

Or, as Yoshi said, you can host your own inhouse Berkshelf API server.
And Chef Server is such a thing too. So if you have an internal Chef Server anyway, you could use that. If not, you could run GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf-api: Berkshelf dependency API server directly. Or just repeat the internal locations in your top-level Berksfile (ugly but easiest).

If anybody knows a server-less solution for that, I'd be interested too...

HTH, Torben

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Fouts, Chris <Chris.Fouts@sensus.commailto:Chris.Fouts@sensus.com> wrote:
I've already tried it, and I get error below. In this example, I have an arqiva_rni_dev environment cookbook, which depends on linux_role role cookbook, and itself depends on common-log cookbook. I have ALL the correct version in my Git repo.

Here's my Berksfile

source "https://supermarket.chef.io"

metadata

Community cookbooks

cookbook 'chef-client'
cookbook 'powershell'
cookbook 'push-jobs'

Company cookbooks

cookbook 'linux_role', git: 'git@git-server:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.git'

My metadata.rb is

name 'arqiva_rni_dev'
(snip)
depends 'linux_role', '1.0.2'

My linux_role/metadata.rb has

depends 'common-log', '~> 0.1.0'
.....

$ berks install
Resolving cookbook dependencies...
Fetching 'arqiva_rni_dev' from source at .
Fetching 'linux_role' from
git@git-server:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.gitmailto:git@git-server:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.git (at master) Fetching cookbook index from https://supermarket.chef.io...
Unable to satisfy constraints on package common-log, which does not
exist, due to solution constraint (arqiva_rni_dev = 0.1.0). Solution
constraints that may result in a constraint on common-log:
[(arqiva_rni_dev = 0.1.0) -> (linux_role = 1.0.2) -> (common-log =
0.1.0)], [(linux_role = 1.0.2) -> (common-log = 0.1.0)] Missing
artifacts: common-log Demand that cannot be met: (arqiva_rni_dev =
0.1.0) Unable to find a solution for demands: arqiva_rni_dev (0.1.0),
chef-client (>= 0.0.0), linux_role (1.0.2), powershell (>= 0.0.0),
push-jobs (>= 0.0.0)

I can get rid of the error by including the common-log cookbook in my top-level Berksfile, but you're saying I should NOT have to do this.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.demailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 4:05 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Yep, you should expect this to work. Everything else would be a big surprise to me at least...

Have you tried it already, or are you just elaborating how to set things up?

Cheers, Torben

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Fouts, Chris <Chris.Fouts@sensus.commailto:Chris.Fouts@sensus.com> wrote:
Note, these are NOT supermarket cookbooks, but rather our company
cookbooks on our own git server, which is not configured like a super market.

Knowing this, should I still expect this to work?

Chris

From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.demailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 3:13 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks
"recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Hey Chris,

Berkshelf should actually resolve the dependencies transitively.

In your top-level Berksfile you should only need the role cookbooks.
Once you run a 'berks install' there you should get a Berksfile.lock
which locks the whole dependency graph, including the transitive ones.

Do you observe something different?

HTH,
Torben

Am 07.04.2015 19:23 schrieb "Fouts, Chris" <Chris.Fouts@sensus.commailto:Chris.Fouts@sensus.com>:

I want to setup an environment cookbook Berksfile with nothing but
role cookbooks in it, and the role cookbooks themselves will then
aggregate the specific cookbooks they need. For example

myApp/Berksfile

cookbook ‘app1_role’, git: ‘git@git-server.domain.com:group/app1_role.git’

cookbook ‘app2_role’, git: ‘git@git-server.domain.com:group/app2_role.git’

myApp/metadata.rb

depends ‘app1_role’, ‘~> 1.0.0’

depends ‘app2_role’, ‘~> 1.0.0’

app1_role/metadata.rb

depends ‘cookbook1’, ‘= 1.0.0’

depends ‘cookbook2, ‘= 1.0.0’

app2_role/metadata.rb

depends ‘cookbook3’, ‘= 1.0.0’

depends ‘cookbook4, ‘= 1.0.0’

How can I set this up so I ONLY have the role cookbooks, but not the
individual cookbooks they need, in my environment cookbook’s
Berksfile, and when I do a berks install, it will auto-magically
install the cookbooks that my role cookbooks need? Currently, I also
have to include the cookbooks that my role cookbooks need in my environment Berksfile.

Make sense?

Chris

You set up the API server to point to whatever back ends have cookbooks you
need. So one back end would be the repo(s) in your git server.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com wrote:

I’m inferring that what I need is to set up my internal Git server as a
Berkshelf API server? Are these still valid?

GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf: A Chef Cookbook manager

Chris

From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 1:11 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How to setup
Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks
in it?

Oooops. I somehow entered the v2.0 Berkshelf docs without noticing...

Sorry for the disinformation :-/

Am 08.04.2015 02:11 schrieb "Drew Blessing" Drew.Blessing@buckle.com:

chef_api in Berkshelf is deprecated. See
GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf: A Chef Cookbook manager

At this time I believe the Berkshelf API server or internal supermarket
are required. We use Berkshelf API server and it works great.

On Apr 7, 2015, at 6:57 PM, Torben Knerr mail@tknerr.de wrote:

Nope, you don't have to install anything additional afaik, you can
simply use your Chef Server as an artifact source for Berkshelf.

This is probably what you are looking for:
http://berkshelf.com/v2.0/#chef-api-location

You can set that globally in your ~/.berkshelf/config.json to keep
your individual Berksfiles clean.

Cheers, Torben

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:
Yes I do have internal Chef 12 Enterprise server. So how can I set it
up as a Berkshelf API server, by installing this in my Chef server
GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf-api: Berkshelf dependency API server

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 7:17 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install
ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Oh, right. I thought only your (2nd level) role cookbooks would be
hosted internally. If you have internally hosted dependent cookbooks like
"common-log" etc deep down in your dependency graph you must inlcude their
inhouse git location in the top-level Berksfile. The nested Berksfiles are
not evaluated.

Or, as Yoshi said, you can host your own inhouse Berkshelf API server.
And Chef Server is such a thing too. So if you have an internal Chef
Server anyway, you could use that. If not, you could run
GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf-api: Berkshelf dependency API server directly. Or just repeat the
internal locations in your top-level Berksfile (ugly but easiest).

If anybody knows a server-less solution for that, I'd be interested
too...

HTH, Torben

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:
I've already tried it, and I get error below. In this example, I have
an arqiva_rni_dev environment cookbook, which depends on linux_role role
cookbook, and itself depends on common-log cookbook. I have ALL the correct
version in my Git repo.

Here's my Berksfile

source "https://supermarket.chef.io"

metadata

Community cookbooks

cookbook 'chef-client'
cookbook 'powershell'
cookbook 'push-jobs'

Company cookbooks

cookbook 'linux_role', git: 'git@git-server
:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.git'

My metadata.rb is

name 'arqiva_rni_dev'
(snip)
depends 'linux_role', '1.0.2'

My linux_role/metadata.rb has

depends 'common-log', '~> 0.1.0'
.....

$ berks install
Resolving cookbook dependencies...
Fetching 'arqiva_rni_dev' from source at .
Fetching 'linux_role' from
git@git-server:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.git (at master) Fetching
cookbook index from https://supermarket.chef.io...
Unable to satisfy constraints on package common-log, which does not
exist, due to solution constraint (arqiva_rni_dev = 0.1.0). Solution
constraints that may result in a constraint on common-log:
[(arqiva_rni_dev = 0.1.0) -> (linux_role = 1.0.2) -> (common-log =
0.1.0)], [(linux_role = 1.0.2) -> (common-log = 0.1.0)] Missing
artifacts: common-log Demand that cannot be met: (arqiva_rni_dev =
0.1.0) Unable to find a solution for demands: arqiva_rni_dev (0.1.0),
chef-client (>= 0.0.0), linux_role (1.0.2), powershell (>= 0.0.0),
push-jobs (>= 0.0.0)

I can get rid of the error by including the common-log cookbook in my
top-level Berksfile, but you're saying I should NOT have to do this.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 4:05 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL
cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Yep, you should expect this to work. Everything else would be a big
surprise to me at least...

Have you tried it already, or are you just elaborating how to set
things up?

Cheers, Torben

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:
Note, these are NOT supermarket cookbooks, but rather our company
cookbooks on our own git server, which is not configured like a super
market.

Knowing this, should I still expect this to work?

Chris

From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 3:13 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks
"recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Hey Chris,

Berkshelf should actually resolve the dependencies transitively.

In your top-level Berksfile you should only need the role cookbooks.
Once you run a 'berks install' there you should get a Berksfile.lock
which locks the whole dependency graph, including the transitive ones.

Do you observe something different?

HTH,
Torben

Am 07.04.2015 19:23 schrieb "Fouts, Chris" Chris.Fouts@sensus.com:

I want to setup an environment cookbook Berksfile with nothing but
role cookbooks in it, and the role cookbooks themselves will then
aggregate the specific cookbooks they need. For example

myApp/Berksfile

cookbook ‘app1_role’, git: ‘git@git-server.domain.com:
group/app1_role.git’

cookbook ‘app2_role’, git: ‘git@git-server.domain.com:
group/app2_role.git’

myApp/metadata.rb

depends ‘app1_role’, ‘~> 1.0.0’

depends ‘app2_role’, ‘~> 1.0.0’

app1_role/metadata.rb

depends ‘cookbook1’, ‘= 1.0.0’

depends ‘cookbook2, ‘= 1.0.0’

app2_role/metadata.rb

depends ‘cookbook3’, ‘= 1.0.0’

depends ‘cookbook4, ‘= 1.0.0’

How can I set this up so I ONLY have the role cookbooks, but not the
individual cookbooks they need, in my environment cookbook’s
Berksfile, and when I do a berks install, it will auto-magically
install the cookbooks that my role cookbooks need? Currently, I also
have to include the cookbooks that my role cookbooks need in my
environment Berksfile.

Make sense?

Chris

--
Yoshi Spendiff
DevOps Engineer
Indochino
Mobile: +1 778 952 2025
Email: yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com

Ok so I now understand that the Chef server (Chef 12 Enterprise v12.0.x in our case) is a Berks API server, so I created a berks-api organization to run as my Berks API server. I then added this source line in my Berkshelf

source “https://chef-server.domain.com/organizations/berks-api”

Now when I do a berks install, I’m getting

Error retrieving universe from source: https:/chef-server.domain.com/organizations/berks-api

I’m obviously still missing a configuration step?

Chris

From: Yoshi Spendiff [mailto:yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 11:08 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

You set up the API server to point to whatever back ends have cookbooks you need. So one back end would be the repo(s) in your git server.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Fouts, Chris <Chris.Fouts@sensus.commailto:Chris.Fouts@sensus.com> wrote:
I’m inferring that what I need is to set up my internal Git server as a Berkshelf API server? Are these still valid?
GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf: A Chef Cookbook manager

Chris

From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.demailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 1:11 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Oooops. I somehow entered the v2.0 Berkshelf docs without noticing...

Sorry for the disinformation :-/
Am 08.04.2015 02:11 schrieb "Drew Blessing" <Drew.Blessing@buckle.commailto:Drew.Blessing@buckle.com>:
chef_api in Berkshelf is deprecated. See GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf: A Chef Cookbook manager

At this time I believe the Berkshelf API server or internal supermarket are required. We use Berkshelf API server and it works great.

On Apr 7, 2015, at 6:57 PM, Torben Knerr <mail@tknerr.demailto:mail@tknerr.de> wrote:

Nope, you don't have to install anything additional afaik, you can
simply use your Chef Server as an artifact source for Berkshelf.

This is probably what you are looking for:
http://berkshelf.com/v2.0/#chef-api-location

You can set that globally in your ~/.berkshelf/config.json to keep
your individual Berksfiles clean.

Cheers, Torben

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Fouts, Chris <Chris.Fouts@sensus.commailto:Chris.Fouts@sensus.com> wrote:
Yes I do have internal Chef 12 Enterprise server. So how can I set it up as a Berkshelf API server, by installing this in my Chef server GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf-api: Berkshelf dependency API server

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.demailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 7:17 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Oh, right. I thought only your (2nd level) role cookbooks would be hosted internally. If you have internally hosted dependent cookbooks like "common-log" etc deep down in your dependency graph you must inlcude their inhouse git location in the top-level Berksfile. The nested Berksfiles are not evaluated.

Or, as Yoshi said, you can host your own inhouse Berkshelf API server.
And Chef Server is such a thing too. So if you have an internal Chef Server anyway, you could use that. If not, you could run GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf-api: Berkshelf dependency API server directly. Or just repeat the internal locations in your top-level Berksfile (ugly but easiest).

If anybody knows a server-less solution for that, I'd be interested too...

HTH, Torben

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Fouts, Chris <Chris.Fouts@sensus.commailto:Chris.Fouts@sensus.com> wrote:
I've already tried it, and I get error below. In this example, I have an arqiva_rni_dev environment cookbook, which depends on linux_role role cookbook, and itself depends on common-log cookbook. I have ALL the correct version in my Git repo.

Here's my Berksfile

source "https://supermarket.chef.io"

metadata

Community cookbooks

cookbook 'chef-client'
cookbook 'powershell'
cookbook 'push-jobs'

Company cookbooks

cookbook 'linux_role', git: 'git@git-server:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.git'

My metadata.rb is

name 'arqiva_rni_dev'
(snip)
depends 'linux_role', '1.0.2'

My linux_role/metadata.rb has

depends 'common-log', '~> 0.1.0'
.....

$ berks install
Resolving cookbook dependencies...
Fetching 'arqiva_rni_dev' from source at .
Fetching 'linux_role' from
git@git-server:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.gitmailto:git@git-server:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.git (at master) Fetching cookbook index from https://supermarket.chef.io...
Unable to satisfy constraints on package common-log, which does not
exist, due to solution constraint (arqiva_rni_dev = 0.1.0). Solution
constraints that may result in a constraint on common-log:
[(arqiva_rni_dev = 0.1.0) -> (linux_role = 1.0.2) -> (common-log =
0.1.0)], [(linux_role = 1.0.2) -> (common-log = 0.1.0)] Missing
artifacts: common-log Demand that cannot be met: (arqiva_rni_dev =
0.1.0) Unable to find a solution for demands: arqiva_rni_dev (0.1.0),
chef-client (>= 0.0.0), linux_role (1.0.2), powershell (>= 0.0.0),
push-jobs (>= 0.0.0)

I can get rid of the error by including the common-log cookbook in my top-level Berksfile, but you're saying I should NOT have to do this.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.demailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 4:05 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Yep, you should expect this to work. Everything else would be a big surprise to me at least...

Have you tried it already, or are you just elaborating how to set things up?

Cheers, Torben

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Fouts, Chris <Chris.Fouts@sensus.commailto:Chris.Fouts@sensus.com> wrote:
Note, these are NOT supermarket cookbooks, but rather our company
cookbooks on our own git server, which is not configured like a super market.

Knowing this, should I still expect this to work?

Chris

From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.demailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 3:13 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks
"recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Hey Chris,

Berkshelf should actually resolve the dependencies transitively.

In your top-level Berksfile you should only need the role cookbooks.
Once you run a 'berks install' there you should get a Berksfile.lock
which locks the whole dependency graph, including the transitive ones.

Do you observe something different?

HTH,
Torben

Am 07.04.2015 19:23 schrieb "Fouts, Chris" <Chris.Fouts@sensus.commailto:Chris.Fouts@sensus.com>:

I want to setup an environment cookbook Berksfile with nothing but
role cookbooks in it, and the role cookbooks themselves will then
aggregate the specific cookbooks they need. For example

myApp/Berksfile

cookbook ‘app1_role’, git: ‘git@git-server.domain.com:group/app1_role.git’

cookbook ‘app2_role’, git: ‘git@git-server.domain.com:group/app2_role.git’

myApp/metadata.rb

depends ‘app1_role’, ‘~> 1.0.0’

depends ‘app2_role’, ‘~> 1.0.0’

app1_role/metadata.rb

depends ‘cookbook1’, ‘= 1.0.0’

depends ‘cookbook2, ‘= 1.0.0’

app2_role/metadata.rb

depends ‘cookbook3’, ‘= 1.0.0’

depends ‘cookbook4, ‘= 1.0.0’

How can I set this up so I ONLY have the role cookbooks, but not the
individual cookbooks they need, in my environment cookbook’s
Berksfile, and when I do a berks install, it will auto-magically
install the cookbooks that my role cookbooks need? Currently, I also
have to include the cookbooks that my role cookbooks need in my environment Berksfile.

Make sense?

Chris

--
Yoshi Spendiff
DevOps Engineer
Indochino
Mobile: +1 778 952 2025
Email: yoshi.spendiff@indochino.commailto:yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com

Hi Chris,

Did you get this working? I'm looking at doing the same as your setup.

I didn't think Chef 12 was a Berks API server itself, don't you have to
install the berkshelf-api cookbook on your chef server (which fails using
the supermarket cookbook for me)?

Regards,
Yoshi

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:

Ok so I now understand that the Chef server (Chef 12 Enterprise v12.0.x
in our case) is a Berks API server, so I created a berks-api organization
to run as my Berks API server. I then added this source line in my Berkshelf

source “https://chef-server.domain.com/organizations/berks-api”

Now when I do a berks install, I’m getting

Error retrieving universe from source: https:/
chef-server.domain.com/organizations/berks-api

I’m obviously still missing a configuration step?

Chris

From: Yoshi Spendiff [mailto:yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 11:08 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks
"recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

You set up the API server to point to whatever back ends have cookbooks
you need. So one back end would be the repo(s) in your git server.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:

I’m inferring that what I need is to set up my internal Git server as a
Berkshelf API server? Are these still valid?

GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf: A Chef Cookbook manager

Chris

From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 1:11 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How to setup
Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks
in it?

Oooops. I somehow entered the v2.0 Berkshelf docs without noticing...

Sorry for the disinformation :-/

Am 08.04.2015 02:11 schrieb "Drew Blessing" Drew.Blessing@buckle.com:

chef_api in Berkshelf is deprecated. See
GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf: A Chef Cookbook manager

At this time I believe the Berkshelf API server or internal supermarket
are required. We use Berkshelf API server and it works great.

On Apr 7, 2015, at 6:57 PM, Torben Knerr mail@tknerr.de wrote:

Nope, you don't have to install anything additional afaik, you can
simply use your Chef Server as an artifact source for Berkshelf.

This is probably what you are looking for:
http://berkshelf.com/v2.0/#chef-api-location

You can set that globally in your ~/.berkshelf/config.json to keep
your individual Berksfiles clean.

Cheers, Torben

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:
Yes I do have internal Chef 12 Enterprise server. So how can I set it
up as a Berkshelf API server, by installing this in my Chef server
GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf-api: Berkshelf dependency API server

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 7:17 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install
ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Oh, right. I thought only your (2nd level) role cookbooks would be
hosted internally. If you have internally hosted dependent cookbooks like
"common-log" etc deep down in your dependency graph you must inlcude their
inhouse git location in the top-level Berksfile. The nested Berksfiles are
not evaluated.

Or, as Yoshi said, you can host your own inhouse Berkshelf API server.
And Chef Server is such a thing too. So if you have an internal Chef
Server anyway, you could use that. If not, you could run
GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf-api: Berkshelf dependency API server directly. Or just repeat the
internal locations in your top-level Berksfile (ugly but easiest).

If anybody knows a server-less solution for that, I'd be interested
too...

HTH, Torben

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:
I've already tried it, and I get error below. In this example, I have
an arqiva_rni_dev environment cookbook, which depends on linux_role role
cookbook, and itself depends on common-log cookbook. I have ALL the correct
version in my Git repo.

Here's my Berksfile

source "https://supermarket.chef.io"

metadata

Community cookbooks

cookbook 'chef-client'
cookbook 'powershell'
cookbook 'push-jobs'

Company cookbooks

cookbook 'linux_role', git: 'git@git-server
:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.git'

My metadata.rb is

name 'arqiva_rni_dev'
(snip)
depends 'linux_role', '1.0.2'

My linux_role/metadata.rb has

depends 'common-log', '~> 0.1.0'
.....

$ berks install
Resolving cookbook dependencies...
Fetching 'arqiva_rni_dev' from source at .
Fetching 'linux_role' from
git@git-server:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.git (at master) Fetching
cookbook index from https://supermarket.chef.io...
Unable to satisfy constraints on package common-log, which does not
exist, due to solution constraint (arqiva_rni_dev = 0.1.0). Solution
constraints that may result in a constraint on common-log:
[(arqiva_rni_dev = 0.1.0) -> (linux_role = 1.0.2) -> (common-log =
0.1.0)], [(linux_role = 1.0.2) -> (common-log = 0.1.0)] Missing
artifacts: common-log Demand that cannot be met: (arqiva_rni_dev =
0.1.0) Unable to find a solution for demands: arqiva_rni_dev (0.1.0),
chef-client (>= 0.0.0), linux_role (1.0.2), powershell (>= 0.0.0),
push-jobs (>= 0.0.0)

I can get rid of the error by including the common-log cookbook in my
top-level Berksfile, but you're saying I should NOT have to do this.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 4:05 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL
cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Yep, you should expect this to work. Everything else would be a big
surprise to me at least...

Have you tried it already, or are you just elaborating how to set
things up?

Cheers, Torben

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:
Note, these are NOT supermarket cookbooks, but rather our company
cookbooks on our own git server, which is not configured like a super
market.

Knowing this, should I still expect this to work?

Chris

From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 3:13 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks
"recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Hey Chris,

Berkshelf should actually resolve the dependencies transitively.

In your top-level Berksfile you should only need the role cookbooks.
Once you run a 'berks install' there you should get a Berksfile.lock
which locks the whole dependency graph, including the transitive ones.

Do you observe something different?

HTH,
Torben

Am 07.04.2015 19:23 schrieb "Fouts, Chris" Chris.Fouts@sensus.com:

I want to setup an environment cookbook Berksfile with nothing but
role cookbooks in it, and the role cookbooks themselves will then
aggregate the specific cookbooks they need. For example

myApp/Berksfile

cookbook ‘app1_role’, git: ‘git@git-server.domain.com:
group/app1_role.git’

cookbook ‘app2_role’, git: ‘git@git-server.domain.com:
group/app2_role.git’

myApp/metadata.rb

depends ‘app1_role’, ‘~> 1.0.0’

depends ‘app2_role’, ‘~> 1.0.0’

app1_role/metadata.rb

depends ‘cookbook1’, ‘= 1.0.0’

depends ‘cookbook2, ‘= 1.0.0’

app2_role/metadata.rb

depends ‘cookbook3’, ‘= 1.0.0’

depends ‘cookbook4, ‘= 1.0.0’

How can I set this up so I ONLY have the role cookbooks, but not the
individual cookbooks they need, in my environment cookbook’s
Berksfile, and when I do a berks install, it will auto-magically
install the cookbooks that my role cookbooks need? Currently, I also
have to include the cookbooks that my role cookbooks need in my
environment Berksfile.

Make sense?

Chris

--

Yoshi Spendiff

DevOps Engineer

Indochino

Mobile: +1 778 952 2025

Email: yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com

--
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Ops Engineer
Indochino
Mobile: +1 778 952 2025
Email: yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com

Oh I see, the cookbook name changed from berkshelf-api to
berkshelf-api-server from version 2+

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Yoshi Spendiff <
yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com> wrote:

Hi Chris,

Did you get this working? I'm looking at doing the same as your setup.

I didn't think Chef 12 was a Berks API server itself, don't you have to
install the berkshelf-api cookbook on your chef server (which fails using
the supermarket cookbook for me)?

Regards,
Yoshi

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:

Ok so I now understand that the Chef server (Chef 12 Enterprise v12.0.x
in our case) is a Berks API server, so I created a berks-api organization
to run as my Berks API server. I then added this source line in my Berkshelf

source “https://chef-server.domain.com/organizations/berks-api”

Now when I do a berks install, I’m getting

Error retrieving universe from source: https:/
chef-server.domain.com/organizations/berks-api

I’m obviously still missing a configuration step?

Chris

From: Yoshi Spendiff [mailto:yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 11:08 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks
"recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

You set up the API server to point to whatever back ends have cookbooks
you need. So one back end would be the repo(s) in your git server.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:

I’m inferring that what I need is to set up my internal Git server as a
Berkshelf API server? Are these still valid?

GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf: A Chef Cookbook manager

Chris

From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 1:11 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How to setup
Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks
in it?

Oooops. I somehow entered the v2.0 Berkshelf docs without noticing...

Sorry for the disinformation :-/

Am 08.04.2015 02:11 schrieb "Drew Blessing" Drew.Blessing@buckle.com:

chef_api in Berkshelf is deprecated. See
GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf: A Chef Cookbook manager

At this time I believe the Berkshelf API server or internal supermarket
are required. We use Berkshelf API server and it works great.

On Apr 7, 2015, at 6:57 PM, Torben Knerr mail@tknerr.de wrote:

Nope, you don't have to install anything additional afaik, you can
simply use your Chef Server as an artifact source for Berkshelf.

This is probably what you are looking for:
http://berkshelf.com/v2.0/#chef-api-location

You can set that globally in your ~/.berkshelf/config.json to keep
your individual Berksfiles clean.

Cheers, Torben

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:
Yes I do have internal Chef 12 Enterprise server. So how can I set it
up as a Berkshelf API server, by installing this in my Chef server
GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf-api: Berkshelf dependency API server

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 7:17 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install
ALL cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Oh, right. I thought only your (2nd level) role cookbooks would be
hosted internally. If you have internally hosted dependent cookbooks like
"common-log" etc deep down in your dependency graph you must inlcude their
inhouse git location in the top-level Berksfile. The nested Berksfiles are
not evaluated.

Or, as Yoshi said, you can host your own inhouse Berkshelf API server.
And Chef Server is such a thing too. So if you have an internal Chef
Server anyway, you could use that. If not, you could run
GitHub - berkshelf/berkshelf-api: Berkshelf dependency API server directly. Or just repeat the
internal locations in your top-level Berksfile (ugly but easiest).

If anybody knows a server-less solution for that, I'd be interested
too...

HTH, Torben

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:
I've already tried it, and I get error below. In this example, I have
an arqiva_rni_dev environment cookbook, which depends on linux_role role
cookbook, and itself depends on common-log cookbook. I have ALL the correct
version in my Git repo.

Here's my Berksfile

source "https://supermarket.chef.io"

metadata

Community cookbooks

cookbook 'chef-client'
cookbook 'powershell'
cookbook 'push-jobs'

Company cookbooks

cookbook 'linux_role', git: 'git@git-server
:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.git'

My metadata.rb is

name 'arqiva_rni_dev'
(snip)
depends 'linux_role', '1.0.2'

My linux_role/metadata.rb has

depends 'common-log', '~> 0.1.0'
.....

$ berks install
Resolving cookbook dependencies...
Fetching 'arqiva_rni_dev' from source at .
Fetching 'linux_role' from
git@git-server:arqchefcookbooks/linux_role.git (at master) Fetching
cookbook index from https://supermarket.chef.io...
Unable to satisfy constraints on package common-log, which does not
exist, due to solution constraint (arqiva_rni_dev = 0.1.0). Solution
constraints that may result in a constraint on common-log:
[(arqiva_rni_dev = 0.1.0) -> (linux_role = 1.0.2) -> (common-log =
0.1.0)], [(linux_role = 1.0.2) -> (common-log = 0.1.0)] Missing
artifacts: common-log Demand that cannot be met: (arqiva_rni_dev =
0.1.0) Unable to find a solution for demands: arqiva_rni_dev (0.1.0),
chef-client (>= 0.0.0), linux_role (1.0.2), powershell (>= 0.0.0),
push-jobs (>= 0.0.0)

I can get rid of the error by including the common-log cookbook in my
top-level Berksfile, but you're saying I should NOT have to do this.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 4:05 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL
cookooks "recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Yep, you should expect this to work. Everything else would be a big
surprise to me at least...

Have you tried it already, or are you just elaborating how to set
things up?

Cheers, Torben

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Fouts, Chris Chris.Fouts@sensus.com
wrote:
Note, these are NOT supermarket cookbooks, but rather our company
cookbooks on our own git server, which is not configured like a
super market.

Knowing this, should I still expect this to work?

Chris

From: Torben Knerr [mailto:mail@tknerr.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 3:13 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How to setup Berkshelf to install ALL cookooks
"recuresively', with only role cookbooks in it?

Hey Chris,

Berkshelf should actually resolve the dependencies transitively.

In your top-level Berksfile you should only need the role cookbooks.
Once you run a 'berks install' there you should get a Berksfile.lock
which locks the whole dependency graph, including the transitive
ones.

Do you observe something different?

HTH,
Torben

Am 07.04.2015 19:23 schrieb "Fouts, Chris" Chris.Fouts@sensus.com:

I want to setup an environment cookbook Berksfile with nothing but
role cookbooks in it, and the role cookbooks themselves will then
aggregate the specific cookbooks they need. For example

myApp/Berksfile

cookbook ‘app1_role’, git: ‘git@git-server.domain.com:
group/app1_role.git’

cookbook ‘app2_role’, git: ‘git@git-server.domain.com:
group/app2_role.git’

myApp/metadata.rb

depends ‘app1_role’, ‘~> 1.0.0’

depends ‘app2_role’, ‘~> 1.0.0’

app1_role/metadata.rb

depends ‘cookbook1’, ‘= 1.0.0’

depends ‘cookbook2, ‘= 1.0.0’

app2_role/metadata.rb

depends ‘cookbook3’, ‘= 1.0.0’

depends ‘cookbook4, ‘= 1.0.0’

How can I set this up so I ONLY have the role cookbooks, but not the
individual cookbooks they need, in my environment cookbook’s
Berksfile, and when I do a berks install, it will auto-magically
install the cookbooks that my role cookbooks need? Currently, I also
have to include the cookbooks that my role cookbooks need in my
environment Berksfile.

Make sense?

Chris

--

Yoshi Spendiff

DevOps Engineer

Indochino

Mobile: +1 778 952 2025

Email: yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com

--
Yoshi Spendiff
Ops Engineer
Indochino
Mobile: +1 778 952 2025
Email: yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com

--
Yoshi Spendiff
Ops Engineer
Indochino
Mobile: +1 778 952 2025
Email: yoshi.spendiff@indochino.com