If you've been working with Chef in your organization for awhile, you've probably accumulated a bunch of cookbooks in a giant repository. With great tools like Berkshelf out there, it's become customary to rely on external community cookbooks, git repositories, and your own Chef Server for cookbooks. Essentially cookbooks have been extracted as a first-class object.| Seth Vargo
Amazon Opsworks supplies its users with a nice collection of starter cookbooks on GitHub. Berkshelf prefers users treat each cookbook as its own software project, but for Opsworks users, that is not an option. Let me demonstrate a few ways you can use Berkshelf in tandem with Amazon Opsworks.| Seth Vargo
The Berkshelf Berksfile is often viewed as a black box, but it is actually a Ruby-interpreted DSL. The power of Ruby is at your fingertips! Learn a few tips and tricks that can increase your Berkshelf productivity.| Seth Vargo
This post discusses the future of Berkshelf and the Vagrant Berkshelf plugin.| Seth Vargo
There are many ways to work with Berkshelf. In this post, I discuss the Berkshelf workflow of the Releasing Engineering team at Chef with Berkshelf, Test Kitchen, GitHub, and a Chef Server.| Seth Vargo