I've got a custom cookbook that configures my Jenkins servers. There are 3 recipes in a custom cookbook. I'm using librarian-chef to manage my cookbook dependencies. Chef is being run in local mode and I use terraform to provision my nodes with Chef.
When I run chef-client -z it tries to copy my custom cookbook in the site-cookbooks directory into the cookbooks directory. The reason I say "tries" is because it only copies one of the recipes over, it doens't copy the other recipes or other cookbook files like metadata.rb. Ultimately I get errors on including the java cookbook in my recipe because it can't resolve that cookbooks dependencies.
If I manually log into the node and copy the directory over myself, everything runs perfectly.
This bug is resolved in latest stable version of chef. You can try that