Intro I am learning Chef to automate the server management at work. I downloaded chefdk 3.0 from here and now I am trying to build my first cookbook using chef. Important I am using this in a Wind...

What's the difference between adding cookbooks to Berksfile using 'cookbook' and adding cookbooks to metadata.rb using 'depends'? For example, if I add to metadata.rb depends 'nginx' do I need t...

I'm new to chef and ran into problems with berkshelf and chef-client. I want to have my own cookbook with dependencies and apply it. My initial cookbook looks like this: . ├── Berksfile ├── Berksf...

I have installed chef client 12.0.3, on top of it I have install chef-dk version 0.3.5 but why chef-dk is installing chef client version Chef: 11.18.0.rc.1 Unable to Upload cookbooks to chef serv...

The Goal I am attempting to conditionally run the vagrant-berkshelf plugin. By default, enabling the plugin causes Berkshelf to resolve and vendor cookbooks on every single vagrant up (which is a ...

I created a cookbook named foo, and want to use with Berkshelf. I wrote like this in Berksfile: cookbook 'foo', git: 'https://bitbucket.org/ironsand/cookbook-foo.git' Then vendor the cookbook t...

I've updated to Vagrant 1.4.3 and am attempting to install the vagrant-berkshelf plugin. I'm getting the following error: $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf Installing the 'vagrant-berkshe...

Ive been struggling with this for hours and dont seem to be making any progress. Any tips on where I should start debugging this would be appreciated. I am attempting to provision a vagrant machin...

I wish to create a developer environment of a web based application which will have an application server and database server installed on a VM using vagrant. I am using open source chef server and...

According to "berks help update", the command is supposed to: "Update the cookbooks (and dependencies) specified in the Berksfile" (Yes ... that's all it says!). But what exactly does this me...

I'm using vagrant+chef. My chef cookbooks worked perfectly. Then I installed vagrant-berkshelf plugin and from that moment I could not use own cookbooks. Berkshelf overrides cookbooks directory and...

I'm using berkshelf to manage cookbooks, chef 11.6.2, and nginx cookbook v 2.0.0 my settings to compile nginx from source: set[:nginx][:source][:modules] = ["http_gzip_static_module", "http_ssl_m...

Can anyone explain why I am getting the following error "Vagrant: Network type 'bridged' is invalid. Please use a valid network type." when I try to bring vagrant up on Virtual Box with the follo...