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Food Fight Show News

Welcome to the seventh issue of the What's Cookin' newsletter! #ChefConf has kept us so busy that we've not had time to get out a proper newsletter lately. We'll correct that with one or two newsletters this week and then try to get back on a more regular schedule of a newsletter every one or two weeks.

Latest Episodes

Upcoming Episodes

We are preparing episodes on the following topics and would love your help generating questions, identifying panelists, etc.

  • Continuous Delivery
  • Chef and AWS
  • Testing in Practice
  • Chef and Openstack

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Cookbook News

Stats

Cookbooks on the Community Site - 952
Knife Plugins on RubyGems.org - 123
Chef Gems available on RubyGems.org - 126

New Cookbooks

100 New Cookbooks

Updated Cookbooks

131 updated cookbooks

New and Updated Chef and Knife Gems

  • berkshelf-shims (0.1.1) - Shim functionality for Berkshelf
  • berkshelf-vagrant (1.1.3) - Renamed to vagrant-berkshelf
  • berkshelf (1.4.3) - Manages a Cookbook's, or an Application's, Cookbook dependencies
  • berkshelf_ext (1.0.12) - Extenstions for berkshelf
  • capistrano-paratrooper-chef (0.2.0) - A capistrano task to invoke chef-solo
  • chef-berks (0.0.1) - Allows chef-client/solo to grab cookbooks on the fly using berkshelf
  • chef-handler-copperegg (0.1.3) - This Handler will report the metrics for a chef-client run to CopperEgg.
  • chef-handler-datadog (0.1.2) - This Handler will report the events and metrics for a chef-client run to DataDog.
  • chef-handler-motd (0.1.2) - Edits MOTD at the end of a Chef run
  • chef-handler-sensu (0.1.1) - Cleans up old Sensu checks during a Chef run
  • chef-handler-timestamp (0.1.0) - Adds a timestamp at the end of a successful Chef run
  • chef-handler-xmpp (0.2.2) - Chef report handler to send messages to xmpp/jabber/gchat accounts.
  • chef-keepass (0.2.1) - Data encryption support for chef using data bags
  • chef-reporting (0.1.0) - Backport of Chef Reporting handler for Chef < 11.6.0
  • chef-ssl-client (1.0.5) - A command-line client the ssl cookbook's signing requirements
  • chef-vault (1.2.3) - Data encryption support for chef using data bags
  • chef-workflow-tasklib (0.2.3) - A set of rake tasks provided as discrete libraries for forming a chef workflow
  • chef-workflow (0.2.5) - A comprehensive rake-based workflow for chef
  • chef-zero (0.9.8) - Self-contained, easy-setup, fast-start in-memory Chef server for testing and solo setup purposes
  • chefspec (1.1.0) - Write RSpec examples for Opscode Chef recipes
  • cucumber-chef (3.0.8) - Framework for test-driven infrastructure development.
  • flowchef (0.0.2) - Send chef run information to a Flowdock channel
  • foodcritic (2.1.0) - Lint tool for Opscode Chef cookbooks.
  • furnish-knife-server (0.0.1) - Furnish provisioner for knife-server -- automate a build of a chef-server
  • jvmargs (0.0.4) - Sanity check command-line arguments to the JVM
  • knife-backup (0.0.5) - Chef knife plugins to help backup and restore chef servers
  • knife-bluebox (0.8.5) - Chef knife plugin for Blue Box
  • knife-cfn (0.1.5) - CloudFormation Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-cisco_asa (0.2.0) - A knife plugin for managing Cisco ASA devices.
  • knife-cleanup (0.0.5) - Chef knife plugin to help cleanup unused versions of cookbooks from a chef server
  • knife-cloudstack (0.0.14) - A Knife plugin to create, list and manage CloudStack servers
  • knife-community (0.2.0) - The centralized location for sharing cookbooks is the Community Site, this is a process helper to produce a repeatable method for releasing cookbooks.
  • knife-cookbook-doc (0.3.0) - Knife plugin to generate README.md for a cookbook
  • knife-cookbook-sync (0.1.0) - Sync only what's changed -- faster than cookbook upload
  • knife-digital_ocean (0.1.1) - A plugin for chef's knife to manage instances of DigitalOcean servers
  • knife-easybake (0.1.0) - Making Easybake Possible
  • knife-ec2 (0.6.4) - EC2 Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-essentials (0.9.8) - Universal knife verbs that work with your Chef repository
  • knife-flip (0.1.6) - A knife plugin to move a node, or all nodes in a role, to a specific environment
  • knife-joyent (0.1.4) - Joyent CloudAPI Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-nodefu (0.1.2) - A knife plugin for simple node creation automation
  • knife-openstack (0.7.1) - OpenStack Compute Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-packager (0.1.3) - Knife pluging to deploy cookbooks to S3
  • knife-proxmox (0.0.18) - ProxmoxVE Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-rhn (0.3.0) - A knife plugin for managing RHN.
  • knife-rightscale (0.0.3) - One plugin to provision them all! This plugin allows the Chef developer to provision Chef clients on all major clouds using the RightScale platform.
  • knife-server (1.0.1) - Chef Knife plugin to bootstrap Chef Servers
  • knife-setup (1.1.0) - Allows you to bootsrap machine and set role and env.
  • knife-sharp (0.2.0) - Sharpen your knife
  • knife-solo_data_bag (0.3.2) - A knife plugin for working with data bags and chef solo
  • knife-stalenodes (1.0.1) - Knife plugin for listing nodes that have not checked in
  • knife-stash (0.2.0) - A knife plugin for Atlassian Stash.
  • knife-tarsnap (0.1.1) - Knife plugin and Chef cookbook for managing tarsnap.
  • knife-twitter (0.1.0) - knife-plugin for twitter.
  • knife-voxel (0.0.9) - Voxel hAPI Support for Chef's knife command
  • knife-vsphere (0.5.0) - VMware vSphere Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-whisk (2.0.0) - A utility for quickly whipping up new servers in a team environment
  • librarian-chef (0.0.1) - Librarian::Chef
  • minitest-chef-handler (1.0.1) - Run minitest suites after your Chef recipes to check the status of your system.
  • pocketknife_ec2dream (0.1.7) - tool for managing computers running chef-solo
  • realityforge-knife-windows (0.5.17) - Plugin that adds functionality to Chef's Knife CLI for configuring/interacting with nodes running Microsoft Windows
  • ridley (0.11.1) - A reliable Chef API client with a clean syntax
  • vagrant-chef-apply (0.0.1) - A Vagrant plugin to add simple chef-apply provisioner
  • vagrant-chefnode (0.0.2) - Remove nodes and clients from Chef Server when instances are destroyed
  • vagrant-librarian-chef (0.0.1) - A Vagrant plugin to install Chef cookbooks using Librarian-Chef.
  • yard-chef (1.0.0) - yard-chef is a YARD plugin for Chef that adds support for documenting Chef cookbooks, resources, providers, and definitions.
  • yyuu-capistrano-chef-solo (0.1.6) - a capistrano recipe to invoke chef-solo.
The Food Fight Show is brought to you by [Bryan Berry](https://twitter.com/bryanwb) and [Nathen Harvey](https://twitter.com/nathenharvey) with help from other hosts and the awesome community of Chefs.

The show and this newsletter are sponsored, in part, by Opscode. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available.

Feedback, suggestions, and questions: [email protected] or http://github.com/foodfight/showz.