There are only two fundamental assumptions for working with Berkshelf:

The Vagrant Berkshelf plugin has been rewritten to shell out to the berks CLI packaged with the ChefDK. There seems to be some confusion about this post. We are deprecating vagrant-berkshelf, a plugin for integration Berkshelf with Vagrant. We are not depecatin...

The Berksfile is really one of the most magical compontents of Berkshelf - a cookbook dependency manager for Chef. As a core team member, I sometimes take for granted the extensibility of Berkshelf, so I decided to blog about some patterns! Because the Berksfil...

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...

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,...