rake_tasks

Rake Tasks

The homebase contains a Rakefile that includes tasks that are installed with the Chef libraries. To view the tasks available with in the homebase with a brief description, run rake -T.

Besides your ~/.chef/knife.rb file, the Rakefile loads config/rake.rb, which sets:

• Constants used in the ssl_cert task for creating the certificates.
• Constants that set the directory locations used in various tasks.

If you use the ssl_cert task, change the values in the config/rake.rb file appropriately. These values were also used in the new_cookbook task, but that task is replaced by the knife cookbook create command which can be configured below.

The default task (default) is run when executing rake with no arguments. It will call the task test_cookbooks.

The following standard Chef tasks are typically accomplished using the rake file:

• bundle_cookbook[cookbook] - Creates cookbook tarballs in the pkgs/ dir.
• install - Calls update, roles and upload_cookbooks Rake tasks.
• ssl_cert - Create self-signed SSL certificates in certificates/ dir.
• update - Update the homebase from source control server, understands git and svn.
• roles - iterates over the roles and uploads with knife role from file.

Most other tasks use knife: run a bare knife cluster, knife cookbook (etc) to find out more.