LittleChef Berkshelf Support

[chengkai liang]

Based on littlechef's README document, it supports Berkshelf if Berksfile exists.  Now, I have a Berksfile in current directory like

.

├── Berksfile

├── Berksfile.lock

├── Gemfile

├── Gemfile.lock

├── README.md

├── Thorfile

├── Vagrantfile

├── attributes

├── aws.rb

├── berks-cookbooks

├── boothook.sh

├── chefignore

├── cloud-config.yaml

├── combined.txt

├── cookbooks

├── data_bags

├── definitions

├── environments

├── files

├── get_aws_creds.rb

├── littlechef.cfg

├── local-machines.rb

├── metadata.rb

├── nodes

├── recipes

├── roles

├── site-cookbooks

├── test

├── user_data.yaml

├── write-mime-multipart

└── write-sudoer-requiretty.yaml

And content of my littlechef.cfg is,

[userinfo]

user = ec2-user

password = 

keypair-file = /Users/xxx/.ssh/ec2-us-west-2.pem

ssh-config   = /Users/xxx/.ssh/config

encrypted_data_bag_secret = 

[kitchen]

node_work_path = /tmp/chef-solo/

berksfile = Berksfile

berksfile_cookbooks_directory = cookbooks

Based on README if user does not provide berksfile_cookbooks_directory, littlechef will execute berks vendor berks_cookbook_directory.  However, this is not happening.  In stead I have to execute 

berks vendor berks_cook_directory in order to get all the dependent cookbooks install to that directory.  Do I missing any configuration in littlechef.cfg?

-Chengkai

 

[Adam Hamsik]

Hi,

You should not need to run berks vendor manually. Can you share screen log with me from littlechef run with debug flag enabled and with/without berk_cookbook_directory in your config.

Another question is what version of littlechef do you use and from which repository ?

[chengkai liang]

Adam,

As you say, it is working.  But I swear that the first couple time I used it is not work.  Anyway, thanks for responding to this email.

-Chengkai

[Miquel Torres]

Do you think the README could be improved in some way to avoid confusion?

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[haad]

Frankly I'm not sure where the problem was.

[Miquel Torres]

Yeah, i was asking Chengkai, in case he could have avoided being stuck
by having extra pointers in the README

[chengkai liang]

Adam,

I took my word back.  If I remove the cookbooks directory from kitchen folder, and run fix -V node:jenkins-master, it gives these error message:

zsh 4847  (git)-[master]-% fix -V node:jenkins-master

Verbose output on

Fatal error: Couldn't find cookbooks. Are you executing 'fix' outside of a kitchen?

To create a new kitchen in the current directory  type 'fix new_kitchen'

Aborting.

Wether berksfile_cookbooks_directory set or not.  After I ran berks vendor cookbooks command to sync cookbooks into cookbooks directory.  The 

fix command will work with or without berksfile_cookbooks_directory.

[chengkai liang]

The littlechef version I have is

zsh 4300 [1]  (git)-[master]-% fix -v

LittleChef 1.7.2

On Thursday, January 1, 2015 2:33:26 PM UTC-8, Adam Hamsik wrote:

[haad]

Frankly I'm not sure if it's correct version or not(but it looks like
it's not). @tobami said that he is going to merge my changes/fixes
sometimes this week and do a release. This exact same setup works on
my machine with my own for so as a hack you can do berks vendor for
now and wait for release.

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[chengkai liang]

What's the right way to get littlechef?  I use pip install to get it.

-Chengkai

[Miquel Torres]

Yeah, that is the right way. There are just a couple of berkshelf
fixes both unreleased and unmerged. I will do a release tomorrow so
you can get them with 1.7.3 (or 1.8!) using a pip install -U

[chengkai liang]

Thanks and looking forward to this release.