Chef-install

Chef-install helps you to install Chef cookbooks on your local machine with single command.

Currently works on Ubuntu only.

Note. Behind the scenes chef-install uses ruby and chef-solo

Install

pip install -e git+https://exslim@github.com/exslim/chef-install.git#egg=chef_install

Get some Chef cookbooks

git clone https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks ~/.chef-install/cookbooks

You can omit this step if you already have them. Just edit ~/.chef-install/solo.rb and set proper path to cookbooks.

Example of ~/.chef-install/solo.rb

file_cache_path "/tmp/chef-solo"

cookbook_path root + '/cookbooks'

log_level :info

log_location STDOUT

ssl_verify_mode :verify_none

data_bag_path root + '/data_bags'

Cook!

chef-install my_cookbook

Note. You should run chef-install as root if any of cookbooks requires it.