Barclamp

What is a barclamp?

Barclamp is the description of a component that can be deployed on the target node. It generally consists of:

• Rails components (i.e. models, controllers, views, etc.)
• Contents component (Chef components cookbooks, data bags etc.)
• Executables (e.g. a CLI interface)
• Meta-data describing the barclamp and its dependencies
• Documentation
• Tests

Each barclamp has the same top-level directories, e.g. bin/ chef/ crowbar_framework/ doc/ ... and a crowbar.yml file containing the metadata.