Quickly upload changes to a chef server (0.8)

changes.sh

#!/bin/sh
diff  -x .gitignore -x .DS_Store -x metadata.json -x "README" -qr  cookbooks/ /srv/chef/cookbooks/  | grep -v "Only in 
/srv/chef/cookbooks/" | sed -e "s/.*cookbooks\/[ :]*//;s/\/.*//;s/:.*//" | sort | uniq | xargs knife cookbook upload
for a in `diff  -x .gitignore -x metadata.json -x "README" -qr  cookbooks/ /srv/chef/cookbooks/  | grep  "Only in /srv/
chef/cookbooks/" | sed -e "s/.*cookbooks\/[ :]*//;s/\/.*//;s/:.*//" | sort | uniq`; do
echo "y" | knife cookbook delete $a
done

For Chef 0.8
Run this from an admin node, inside the root of your chef cookbook repository.

Assumes:

• your chef stores its data in /src/chef/cookbooks (have a look before running it)

Advantages:

• way faster than any upload method.
• rather safe (if you have a copy of your cookbooks in a SCM)

Issues:

• Only process ./cookbooks
• Can sometimes delete non removed cookbooks. Run again to fix !
• Does not process roles