berks-monolith
Berks-monolith is a companion command to berkshelf that takes all cookbooks mentioned in a Berksfile and places development friendly versions of them under a single directory. Usually, this means you will end up with git clones for all cookbooks with git repositories in the Berksfile, and static copies of cookbooks that don't have identifiable VCS repositories.
Use cases
- You have a Berksfile with many git based sources, and want a quick way to clone them all under a single directory.
- You have a mostly monolithic repository, but make use of berkshelf to manage dependencies and use external cookbook sources, and you'd like to have everything in one place to be able to search.
- You are transitioning between a monolithic repository workflow and a independent software artefacts workflow, and have a mix of artefacts in a Berksfile as well as cookbooks in a monolithic repository, and you want all cookbooks in one place.
Why not just use X?
The berks vendor command comes close to what monolith does, grabbing all
cookbooks mentioned in a Berksfile and putting copies of them under a single
directory. However, berks vendor is intended for production rather than
development use, and explicitly strips any VCS directories, chef ignored
files, and metadata.rb files.
The berks install command collects all cookbooks into
~/.berkshelf/cookbooks, but again VCS information is stripped out, and this
contains all cookbooks, not just those associated with a specific Berksfile.
Installation
Install from rubygems:
gem install berks-monolith
Or to install the development version from a git clone:
rake install
Usage
berks-monolith install
Clones/copies all cookbooks mentioned in the berksfile. By default they go
into the 'cookbooks' directory. You can specify an alternate path if you wish
by specifying it on the command line: berks-monolith install vendor.
Exactly what you get depends on what the source of the cookbook is in the berksfile:
- Normal community cookbooks (e.g. if you just specify
cookbook 'foo'with no other options) are just copied in place from the berkshelf directory. - Git cookbooks will result in a clone of the repository pointing to the original source repository.
- Path cookbooks will be skipped completely. This means you don't have to worry if you have existing local cookbooks in a monolithic repository in your Berksfile. They won't be copied again.
berks-monolith update
Updates the cloned copies of cookbooks if possible. In practice this means 'run git pull' for all git clones.
berks-monolith clean
Removes all cookbooks that were installed with berks-monolith install.
Anything else in the cookbooks directory is left alone.