CookbookOmnifetch

CookbookOmnifetch provides library code for fetching Chef cookbooks from an artifact server (usually http://supermarket.getchef.com), git/github, a local path, or a chef-server to a local cache for developement.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'cookbook-omnifetch'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install cookbook-omnifetch

Usage

Inject Dependencies and Configure

Cookbook Omnifetch is designed to work with utilities from both the Berkshelf and Chef Software ecosystems, so you have to configure it before you can use it. In ChefDK, we do this:

# Configure CookbookOmnifetch's dependency injection settings to use our classes and config.
CookbookOmnifetch.configure do |c|
  c.cache_path = File.expand_path('~/.chefdk/cache')
  c.storage_path = Pathname.new(File.expand_path('~/.chefdk/cache/cookbooks'))
  c.shell_out_class = ChefDK::ShellOut
  c.cached_cookbook_class = ChefDK::CookbookMetadata
end

Fetching Cookbooks

To download a cookbook:

fetcher = CookbookOmnifetch.init(dependency, source_options)
fetcher.install

To specify the cookbook you want, you give CookbookOmnifetch a dependency object that responds to #name and #version_constraint, e.g.:

require 'semverse'

Dependency = Struct.new(:name, :version_constraint)

my_dep = Dependency.new("apache2", Semverse::Constraint.new("~> 1.0"))

The source options for the cookbook are given as a Hash; the keys and values vary based on the kind of storage location. As with Bundler's gem options, one key specifies the type of upstream service for the cookbook while other keys specify other options specific to that type. For example:

CookbookOmnifetch.init(dependency, artifact_server: "https://supermarket.chef.io/api/v1/cookbooks/apache2/versions/3.0.1/download")
CookbookOmnifetch.init(dependency, git: "git@github.com:svanzoest/apache2-cookbook.git", tag: "v3.0.1")
CookbookOmnifetch.init(dependency, github: "svanzoest/apache2-cookbook", tag: "v3.0.1")
CookbookOmnifetch.init(dependency, path: "~/chef-cookbooks/apache2")

Contributing

As with other Chef Software projects, in order to contribute you need to agree to the contributor license agreement.

After that:

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request

Thanks

This code was initially extracted from Berkshelf. Thanks to the Berkshelf core teams and contributors.