Masterchef

A simple boilerplate to help you run chef-solo.

How it works

What Masterchef does is pretty straightforward. It uploads your cookbooks to remote machine, resolve dependencies then run chef-solo. All the heavy works are done in remote machine so you don't have to send your entire cookbooks and its dependencies. It also run pretty fast!

How dependencies are resolved

Currently Masterchef uses Berkshelf to resolve cookbooks dependencies. If you write your cookbooks dependencies in your cookbook's metadata.rb, Masterchef will automagically resolve them.

If you don't want to put your dependencies into cookbook's metadata.rb, you can also put them in workspace/Berksfile.

What it is actually doing

Provision of a remote machine is done by:

1. Send content of workspace/ to remote machine with generated attributes.json from relevant machine configuration in nodes/.

2. Run berks install to resolve cookbooks dependencies for all cookbooks in workspace/cookbooks/.

3. Run chef-solo using generated attributes.json.

Licence

MIT Licence