Application_Git Cookbook

A Chef cookbook to handle deploying code from git when using the application cookbook.

To deploy from a private GitHub repository:

application '/srv/myapp' do
  git 'git@github.com:example/myapp.git' do
    deploy_key chef_vault_item('deploy_keys', 'myapp')['key']
  end
end

Chef 12.1 or newer is required.

The application_git resource deploys code from git. It extends the core git resource to support deploy keys and disabling strict host key verification.

application '/srv/myapp' do
  git 'git@github.com:example/myapp.git'
end

All actions work the same as the core git resource.

• :sync – Clone and checkout the requested revision (default)
• :checkout – Checkout the request revision. If the repository isn't already cloned, this action does nothing.
• :export – Export the repository without the .git folder.

All properties from the core git resource work the same way with the following additions:

• deploy_key – SSH key to use with git. Can be specified either as a path to key file already created or as a string value containing the key directly.
• strict_ssh – Enable strict SSH host key checking. (default: false)

The application_git resource can be used directly as a replacement for the core git resource:

application_git '/srv/myapp' do
  repository 'git@github.com:example/myapp.git'
  deploy_key chef_vault_item('deploy_keys', 'myapp')['key']
end

Within the application resource, a simplified DSL is available. As with other application plugins, the default name of the resource if unspecified is the application path. The following two examples are equivalent:

application '/srv/myapp' do
  git do
    repository 'git@github.com:example/myapp.git'
  end
end

application '/srv/myapp' do
  git 'git@github.com:example/myapp.git'
end

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The Poise test server infrastructure is sponsored by Rackspace.

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