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Is it 100% required to store all the cookbooks under chef-repo? This seems a little bit inconvenient for me, I'd prefer to store solution cookbooks in the application codebase, or just as a standalone git repos.

I know that tools like knife rely on configuration files to be present in .chef, and it frustrates me a little bit too.

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No, it is not, the chef-repo is the legacy way back to chef 10.

Knife allows working on multiples directory with the -o option. Berks work from current directory.

You can also work around the default .chef directory by using the KNIFE_HOME environment variable too.

The current recomendations is indeed a repo per cookbook (or alongside another app)

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  • But there is still a page about it in the docs. Am I reading the right docs? Also, by any change, maybe you know, if I use Vagrant and Chef Zero to manually test my cookbooks, how do I manage data bags, cookbooks and other policies then?
    – madhead
    Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 17:00
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    The docs are not always up to date, I'm afraid the way to manage things would be better discussed on chef's slack btw
    – Tensibai
    Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 17:50
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    @madhead I just realized I had forgot a point, I've updated the answer and the slack channel join page is here community-slack.chef.io (please forgive the formatting, I'm on phone)
    – Tensibai
    Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 18:01
  • Man, you've answered almost all the question I had recently. I understood more about Chef then in previous year. Thanks for that!
    – madhead
    Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 18:23
  • @madhead feel free to join the slack channel, I'm there too but there's people far more advanced than me and some folks from Chef company also who are really helpful :)
    – Tensibai
    Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 18:37

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