Add a Compressed File to Repositories

Overview

You can upload a compressed file of a cookbook to your Repositories section. As an example, if there is a cookbook that you see in RightScale, you can download it (see Download a Cookbook), and make changes to that file and upload it back to RightScale so you can use those cookbook recipes with a ServerTemplate. 

Prerequisites

• For additional information about adding repositories to RightScale, see Add a Repository.

Steps

When you select compressed file as the Type, you will need to enter the following information:

• Name: The name that will display for your repository. 
• Description: (Optional) The description for your repository.
• Type: This is the type of repository you would like to create. Select Subversion
• URL: The URL where the repository is located. In the example above, the compressed file is being pulled from an S3 bucket.
• Username: Select the username to access your compressed file. This is if you require a username and password combination to access the location of the file. You can use your credentials or you can enter the information. In the example above, since we're pulling from an S3 bucket, a credential that contains the AWS Access Key ID is being used. For information about creating credentials, see Create a New Credential. 
• Password: Select the password to access your compressed file. This is if you require a username and password combination to access the location of the file. You can use your credentials or you can enter the information. In the example above, since we're pulling from an S3 bucket , a credential that contains the AWS Secret Access Key is being used. For information about creating credentials, see Create a New Credential. 
• Cookbooks Paths: The path (URL) to the cookbooks in your compressed file. You can add multiple paths.
• Automatically import cookbooks to the primary namespace: This is checked automatically. When selected, it will automatically import your cookbooks into the primary namespace so you can easily attach them to your ServerTemplates. For more information, see Primary and Alternate Namespace.

See also

• Chef Cookbook Developer Guide
• Cookbooks
• Repositories