Chef Solo .. I was familiar with those links but missed the significance of utilizing “cookbooksArchiveLocation” .. I assume then I can sshclient upload a single zipped cookbooksfile into the node /tmp and use ‘cookbooksArchiveLocation(file:///tmp/cookbooks.tar.gz <file:///\\tmp\cookbooks.tar.gz> )’ with the ‘file’ locator .. -thx -d
From: Ignasi Barrera [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 8:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Utilize a local cookbook to provision a remote I assume you're talking about Chef. You can use Chef in two ways: with a Chef Server or using Chef Solo. If you use a Chef Server, then the cookbooks and hosted there (that means all cookbooks must be uploaded there before they can be used) and the node will download the required ones as part of its bootstrap process. You will find an example of using jclouds with a Chef Server in the Chef User Guide [1]. If you don't have a Chef Server then you'll have to use Chef Solo. Chef Solo doesn't use a Chef Server nor a "remote cookbook repository", so that means the cookbooks must exist locally in the node before Chef Solo is run. The way you get the cookbooks there is completely up to you. You can use the SshClient to upload them, you can have them in a git repo and clone the repo when starting the node, you can provide a publicly available URL to a cookbook archive (a .tar.gz with all the cookbooks), or whatever, but cookbooks need to be in the node. You can see an example of using Chef Solo with Git in the jclouds-examples repo [2] and the cookbook archive approach in this blog post [3]. HTH! I. [1] http://jclouds.apache.org/guides/chef/ [2] https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples/blob/master/chef-basics/src/main/java/org/apache/jclouds/examples/chef/basics/MainApp.java#L167-193 [3] http://www.abiquo.com/2012/11/12/cooking-your-own-configuration-in-the-cloud/ El 08/08/2014 16:00, "dan rusak" <[email protected]> escribió: Hi, I need the ability to use a cookbook sourced from a platform, not a remote repository. So far all I can find are examples that use github repos or just notes that make a reference to uploading files over SshClient to a node and running a script on that node to use that path for its cookbooks. This seems very painful and awkward. (More so because I have yet to find a function that will upload an entire directory without resorting to spinning through one file at a time). Surely there must be a class/function to accept a local path instead of a repository in building the run scripts? -thx -d
