knife plugin? about chef-zero

[jkeiser]

Absolutely, I can imagine knife plugins being part of this. What sort of plugin were you thinking?

[erikh]

Probably to start, just something to start it and spit out a URI on stdout -- that way it could be consumed by other tools.

e.g., knife role from file roles/foo.json -s knife zero uri

"uri" (or perhaps something less on-the-spot) would start the service if necessary.

-Erik

On Apr 28, 2013, at 5:53 PM, John Keiser [email protected] wrote:

Absolutely, I can imagine knife plugins being part of this. What sort of plugin were you thinking?

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[jkeiser]

I don't mind the plugin at all (I'd accept patches), though it seems like chef-zero itself is the executable you want for that (that's what it does) :)

One useful value-add could be a plugin that starts chef-zero, and writes out a .chef/knife.rb along with a bogus client key so that you can do knife and chef-client. In fact, I could also see this being an option to the chef-zero executable. For bonus, I could see an exe or knife plugin that does knife upload / after starting the server, and maybe catches ctrl+c and does a knife download / at the end or something.

[jkeiser]

One thing I could see as a super interesting option, is a change to knife itself to support chef_server_url = :local_server. Then knife, chef-client, and everybody else would spin up chef-zero and dump the repo into it before continuing.

[erikh]

Yeah, that'd play well with chef workflow too. I'll see what I can whip up over the upcoming week.

On Apr 29, 2013, at 8:30 AM, John Keiser [email protected] wrote:

One thing I could see as a super interesting option, is a change to knife itself to support chef_server_url = :local_server. Then knife, chef-client, and everybody else would spin up chef-zero and dump the repo into it before continuing.

[erikh]

Just also wanted to say -- this is more or less what chef-workflow does already, just with a standard chef server instead -- hence my interest.

I'll touch base in a week or so, update you on what progress I've made here. Thanks for the awesome work!

On Apr 29, 2013, at 8:28 AM, John Keiser [email protected] wrote:

I don't mind the plugin at all (I'd accept patches), though it seems like chef-zero itself is the executable you want for that (that's what it does) :)

One useful value-add could be a plugin that starts chef-zero, and writes out a .chef/knife.rb along with a bogus client key so that you can do knife and chef-client. In fact, I could also see this being an option to the chef-zero executable. For bonus, I could see an exe or knife plugin that does knife upload / after starting the server, and maybe catches ctrl+c and does a knife download / at the end or something.

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[erikh]

I haven't had time to do this. I'm going to close this for now, will circle back when I have more time.