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For when you don't need a whole Supermarket...

What?

Minimart is intended to be a light proxy in front of Chef Server, offering a Berkshelf /universe endpoint and proxied cookbook downloads.

Why?

If you just want to be able to resolve your internal cookbooks without providing Chef Server credentials to everyone, but standing up a full Supermarket instance is more than you need, Minimart may be for you.

How

go get github.com/ewr/minimart

minimart --help

Command flags:

• baseURL: Base to use in our download URLs. Could be "http://localhost:8080" if you're just playing around locally, or some different host/port for network use.
• chef.server: Chef server URL, including organization path if necessary.
• chef.client: Chef client name
• chef.pem: Path to PEM file for Chef client
• chef.interval: Interval at which to poll for new cookbooks
• listen: Listening address (":8080" by default)
• skip-ssl: Skip SSL validation for Chef Server? (defaults to true)

TODO

Everything. This is a barely-working proof-of-concept, but I think it serves a legit need. It will serve up your cookbooks securely (in terms of not giving others access to Chef Server), but you shouldn't expose it to untrusted users.

• Tests!
• Concurrent fetches for cookbook version info?
• Cache cookbook tarballs?

Who

Minimart was written by Eric Richardson, to scratch an itch felt at Southern California Public Radio.