Supermarket - Where are cookbooks stored and can you change?

Chef Infra (archive)
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Question is: Where are the cookbooks stored in a private supermarket? Can you change the location to a different mount point?

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The default location is /var/opt/supermarket/data. It is configurable via the data_directory key in /etc/supermarket/supermarket.json—which is often customized via a wrapper cookbook using the supermarket-omnibus-cookbook and setting node['supermarket_omnibus']['config']['data_directory']. Note that if you change this directory after a private Supermarket has had cookbooks uploaded, it is on you to relocate the existing cookbooks and preserve the original file permissions in the new location.

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Thanks for the information. When you say wrapper you are talking about when I setup the private supermarket with the knife command from my workstation and creating the cookbook. I am not sure on the syntax for that. Are you saying use.

node.set[‘supermarket_omnibus’][‘config’][‘data_directory’] = ‘/data/supermarket/data’

I was however able to go into /etc/supermarket/
vi supermarket.rb and change the setting and rerun supermarket-ctl reconfigure and it seems to work.

Is there a reason to use a wrapper vs what I did? Still trying to figure all this out.

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So you can install and manage it directly if you want to, but if you’re using Chef, why not have Chef manage your Supermarket configuration as well? :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the response. That is very true…