Using S3 as a cookbook store backend for chef-server 11

chef-server is a modular service - various tasks are delegated to different sub-services, one of which is Bookshelf, Chef’s cookbook store in charge of storing and serving cookbook files. Bookshelf’s API is S3 compatible by design (I can only assume Opscode are using S3 for their SAAS) and can be replaced with S3. Using S3 as the backend store makes sense for clustering, but there’s very little information on the web on how to configure chef-server to use it.
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