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Anders
Anders

Reputation: 253

Using berkshelf with ChefDK and the Chef Supermarket

I'm brand new to Chef and linux so forgive me if this questions is blatantly obvious or if I'm doing this horribly wrong. So far I have managed to set up a basic standalone Chef server on an Ubuntu 14.04 instance that is running in my network. I setup a Ubuntu desktop on a VM that I have running on my computer. I've been going through tutorials and so far the process I use to get cookbooks from the Chef supermarket up to my Chef server is that I download them to my chef workstation on ubuntu desktop and then upload with the corresponding demands. However, a question I have is that for some more robust cookbooks such as Node.js or MongoDB when I download them to my workstation and then try to upload them to my chef servers it fails. It says that it can't upload properly because it is missing certain dependencies it has. I know that this is the exact use case berkshelf is used for. However, I have no idea how to use it in relation to cookbooks I get from the supermarket. I tried to cd to my directory where my downloaded cookbooks are and run berks install but it gives me errors. Am i doing this wrong or is there a whole other process I should look into? Sorry for possible bad grammar and if this question is painfully simple.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 786

Answers (1)

MaxVT
MaxVT

Reputation: 13244

Try following one of a bunch of available tutorials on how to use Berkshelf with Chef, such as the one at http://cloudacademy.com/blog/berkshelf-manage-chef-cookbooks/.

Upvotes: 1

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