Upload specific Chef cookbook version with knife

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Is it possible to upload an exact version of a Chef cookbook via knife? All I've seen is that knife will upload the latest version it can find.

Is it possible to upload a specific version? Downloading examples show:

$ knife cookbook download COOKBOOK_NAME [COOKBOOK_VERSION] (options)

Is there a way to do this with the upload command?

Best Answer

Knife upload te version of code you have on your disk, on the corresponding cookbook-dir inside your cookbooks path, that is configured on your knife.rb

That being said, if you use tags on your cookbooks, you can use git to do checkouts and switch to the desired version. Then invoke the:

knife upload COOKBOOK_NAME

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If you want to push the cookbook to a chef server just for testing purposes, perhaps you will be better with chef-zero which is a "fast-start in-memory Chef server for testing and solo purposes".

Or, if you are just trying to test the cookbooks you can run the whole test without a chef server by using test-kitchen + minitest-chef-handler. I would suggest you don't use the "bats" but instead follow the minitest-chef-handler test cases examples

Serverfault Note: I still can't post more that 2 links for being a new member so try to follow them below:

minitest-chef-handler
  github: calavera/minitest-chef-handler

bats
  github: test-kitchen/test-kitchen/wiki/Getting-Started

test cases examples
  github: calavera/minitest-chef-handler#test-cases

Chef upload cookbook failed with network error

it appears that it is the server fault. server FQDN should be set on the server side.

edit /etc/hostname, to e.g. yourhost.dyndns.org
run: hostname -F /etc/hostname

thats all

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