How do you mass deploy using policyfiles in Chef?

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With our current model we use the knife-vsphere plugin with a wrapper perl script that essentially for loops knife in conjunction with a csv file to mass deploy a list of VMs. I'm wondering if a workflow like this is possible with policyfiles?

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Policyfiles generally assume you are using Chef Server, there is minimal support in the workflow for using chef-solo. You can play with using the chef export -a feature to generate policy archives and then transferring them via SFTP or hosting them on an internal web server somewhere. Overall "doable but not documented so you're on your own".