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In the News

  • chef-metrics, from @portertech, is a report/exception handler for sending Chef metrics to one or more endpoints.
  • chef-journalist, also from @portertech, is another report/exception handler. This one is used to output a list of updated resources.
  • As we mentioned in Episode 35: A Year in Review, foodcritic had a major release: 1.7.0. This release includes a number of bugfixes and new features including the removal of the controversial FC001. Check the project's CHANGELOG for more details.
  • @someara wrote up a blog post recently titled "Promises, Lies, and Dry-Run Mode". In this post Sean rips away the security blanket of dry-run (or noop or why-run) mode leaving you in the cold. He walks through some of the ways mondern configuration systems lies to us. Of course, there's a cookbook that goes along with the post: dry-run-lies.
  • Need a quick way to upgrade an outdated chef-client on your Vagrant box? @dougireton recently wrote a post about his approach to this which involves using two config.vm.provision blocks in the Vagrantfile. Automatically Upgrading Chef Client on Vagrant Up
  • Doug also recently wrote a post about Creating an LWRP. Part 1 of this series looks at the resource side of the LWRP. The resource is the simple interface you'll interact with in your recipe files. Watch Doug's blog for Part 2.
  • Are you ready to move your cookbooks from one giant chef-repo to an individual repo for each cookbook? Be sure to checkout @sethvargo's blog post, Moving to Individual Cookbooks. In this post, Seth provides some ruby scripts and step-by-step instructions for moving your cookbooks to private repos on github.
  • SoloWizard is a tool that makes it painless to create a configurable chef solo script to get your development machine humming. Check out the SoloWizard site where you can create your personal Solo Wizard script.
  • Test-kitchen 0.7.0 introduces a new OpenStack runner. You can now run your test-kitchen in OpenStack instead of Vagrant. Check-out Opscode Chef Integration Tests Now On OpenStack With Test Kitchen 0.7.0 from Matthias Marschall.
  • David P. Kleinschmidt (aka zobar on github) announced ingredients a humble suggestion for keeping complex Chef cookbooks maintainable.
  • Engine Yard announced their first Engine Yard Innovators Awards with categories for Ruby, PHP, Open Source, and DevOps. Congrats to Food Fight Show co-hot, @nathenharvey, for winning the DevOps category.

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