Where are the cookbooks stored in Chef Server?

Question

Environment: CentOS 6 Chef 10 1 server, 1 node, 1 workstation

What is the location or path of the cookbooks uploaded to the Chef server? For example, from the workstation,

knife cookbook upload getting-started

Where does the cookbook go in the server?

Answer 1

They are stored in the bookshelf, which is a configurable path. You can see the values on all platforms by looking at the attributes file for the chef-server cookbook.

Answer 2

It is stored in bookshelf directory , which can be modified and the files regarding the cookbook are located at /var/opt/chef-server/bookshelf/data/bookshelf . In that directory u can find all the cookbooks uploaded and also you can view the recipes .