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How should i use community chef cookbooks?

Should i just download finished community cookbooks from supermarket, or there is some special mechanism (or package manager) for them, and i can just import them in my recipes somehow?

Solution

  • You should use something like berkshelf to manage dependencies.

    So if you have a community cookbook like "rvm" and you want to use a portion of the cookbook you might create your own cookbook called "my_rvm"

    Then in "my_rvm" you would modify your "metadata.rb" file and add a dependency for "rvm":

    depends "rvm"

    then in the default recipe for "my_rvm" you might put a documented rvm recipe:

    include_recipe "rvm::system"

    Then in the root of your "my_rvm" cookbook you would type:

    berks install

    This will install the dependency cookbook on your workstation so that it is available to your new customized "my_rvm" cookbook.