So I’m setting up a simple chef solo repository, and confused how I can
pull-in cookbooks from opscode etc.
Say my structure is like:
/project/chef
/project/chef/conf/solo.rb
/project/chef/cookbooks/
Now my git repository is under /project:
/project/.git
When I download other cookbooks, like if I clone opscode cookbooks from
github the folder structure is:
/cookbooks/
/cookbooks/activemq
…
So if I want a specific cookbook, I have to copy the folder over to my
/cookbooks folder, but then I update the cookbook using git.
Other individual cookbooks are see around are named like: someapp-cookbook
I’m sure I’m thinking of this the wrong way, but how can I pull down
cookbooks into my cookbooks directly while being able to update them from
their git repo?
Have a look at Librarian, it's designed for managing this.
Knife also has some built in tools for managing cookbooks -- knife
cookbook site download, knife cookbook site install, knife-github
plugin, etc.
--AJ
On 12 April 2012 09:53, S Ahmed sahmed1020@gmail.com wrote:
So I'm setting up a simple chef solo repository, and confused how I can
pull-in cookbooks from opscode etc.
Say my structure is like:
/project/chef
/project/chef/conf/solo.rb
/project/chef/cookbooks/
Now my git repository is under /project:
/project/.git
When I download other cookbooks, like if I clone opscode cookbooks from
github the folder structure is:
/cookbooks/
/cookbooks/activemq
...
So if I want a specific cookbook, I have to copy the folder over to my
/cookbooks folder, but then I update the cookbook using git.
Other individual cookbooks are see around are named like: someapp-cookbook
I'm sure I'm thinking of this the wrong way, but how can I pull down
cookbooks into my cookbooks directly while being able to update them from
their git repo?
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:53 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1020@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure I'm thinking of this the wrong way, but how can I pull down
cookbooks into my cookbooks directly while being able to update them from
their git repo?
I highly recommend braid [1] - we use it and are very happy with it.
The way we do things is something like
Import a remote repository into our local one
braid add git://github.com/realityforge-cookbooks/glassfish.git
cookbooks/glassfish
Update local tree based on changes in remote repo
braid update cookbooks/glassfish
Produce a diff of local dir to remote repo
braid diff cookbooks/glassfish
[1] GitHub - cristibalan/braid: Simple tool to help track vendor branches in a Git repository.
--
Cheers,
Peter Donald
Peter, thanks braid looks interesting.
Actually, if I want to keep things simple, I can just pass an array to my
cookbook_path it seems.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Peter Donald peter@realityforge.orgwrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:53 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1020@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure I'm thinking of this the wrong way, but how can I pull down
cookbooks into my cookbooks directly while being able to update them from
their git repo?
I highly recommend braid [1] - we use it and are very happy with it.
The way we do things is something like
Import a remote repository into our local one
braid add git://github.com/realityforge-cookbooks/glassfish.git
cookbooks/glassfish
Update local tree based on changes in remote repo
braid update cookbooks/glassfish
Produce a diff of local dir to remote repo
braid diff cookbooks/glassfish
[1] GitHub - cristibalan/braid: Simple tool to help track vendor branches in a Git repository.
--
Cheers,
Peter Donald