CODEWITHSUNDEEP
chef-infraartifactorychef-recipe
andyfeller
andyfeller

Reputation: 983

Using chef/artifactory-client as chef remote_file provider

Chef developed a Ruby gem for interacting with Artifactory that Chef cookbooks could use to download artifacts and perform other actions. I assumed it would be leveraged as a provider for resources like remote_file, however there is no example code provided, documentation on using it explicitly in Chef, or others who have taken this approach.

  1. How have you integrated Chef with Artifactory?
  2. Are your cookbooks/recipes redistributable without tight coupling to Artifactory?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1407

Answers (3)

dragon788
dragon788

Reputation: 3931

Artifactory is a universal binary hosting software, and even if you don't need its various specific API compatible options (RubyGems /PyPi /Docker /etc), you can still create a "dumb" file repository that acts like a web server that can serve files anonymously or via authenticated methods.

It is also an excellent caching proxy, I often use it in front of other "dumb" file repositories like the NodeJS.org download directory for the NodeJS binary archives or other remote installers that I want to make sure I have a backup copy of any version I've used in our pipeline.

To use it for "remote_file" you can simply create a new repository called 'local-config-artifacts' and upload your files there. The really nice thing about Artifactory is it can perform the metadata calculations for you (md5/sha1/sha256/etc) and then you can enter that value in your cookbook recipe so that you can have an "idempotent" download that will only re-download if the checksum changes.

Upvotes: 1

Ariel
Ariel

Reputation: 3506

There is a wiki page on how to configure Chef repositories in Artifactory and how to configure your knife to install from Artifactory: https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Chef+Cookbook+Repositories

Is that what you are looking for?

Upvotes: 0

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54267

The two projects (the Artifactory gem and Chef) are not related and the former is not a cookbook. There is a a cookbook called artifact with a custom resource for downloading from Artifactory but I'm not sure it is maintained anymore.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions