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Food Fight Show News

Welcome to the ninth issue of the What's Cookin' newsletter!

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

In the News

Upcoming Meetup Groups and Events

Meetup with people in your neighborhood at one of the following meetup groups.

Opscode Training

Use promotional code 'FOODFIGHT' to save 10% off Chef Introductory Workshops in Chicago, DC, Austin, San Francisco, and Boston.

FREE Chef training next week in Corvallis, OR.

#ChefConf 2013

Need to catch-up on all of the videos and slides from #ChefConf? Check the #ChefConf Talks page on the Opscode blog for links to all of the talks.

Cookbook News

Stats

Cookbooks on the Community Site - 961
Knife Plugins on RubyGems.org - 124
Chef Gems available on RubyGems.org - 137

New Cookbooks

  • berkshelf-cookbook-fixture - ivey - A fixture cookbook for Berkshelf tests
  • chef-pry-demo - bryanwb - This is a super simple cookbook that teaches you how to use pry within Chef.
  • chef-solo-search - tobami - Chef-solo-search is a cookbook library that adds data bag search powers to Chef Solo. Data bag support was added to Chef Solo by Chef 0.10.4. Please see Supported queries for a list of query types which are supported.
  • chruby - atalanta - Installs the Chruby utility for changing between Ruby versions. Chruby is a vastly simplified rbenv - it's about 90 lines of code, and very easy to understand.
  • ckbk - fnichol - A sweet, do-nothing cookbook for tooling testing. There is probably no good reason to use this anywhere. But your mileage may vary.
  • dc - vskubriev - - DEPRECATED - Use openldap
  • docker - bflad - Installs/Configures Docker. Please see COMPATIBILITY.md for more information about Docker versions that are tested and supported by cookbook versions.
  • netdev - privateip - NetdevOps provides a vendor neutral abstraction of network resources
  • netdev_eos - privateip - Implements an EOS specific provider for netdev resources
  • puma - yourabi - Chef cookbook for the puma server.

Updated Cookbooks

New and Updated Chef and Knife Gems

  • berkshelf (1.4.4) - Manages a Cookbook's, or an Application's, Cookbook dependencies
  • chef-handler-librato (1.1.6) - Push reporting stats to Librato metrics
  • chef-handler-motd (0.3.0) - Edits MOTD at the end of a Chef run
  • chef-zero (0.9.9) - Self-contained, easy-setup, fast-start in-memory Chef server for testing and solo setup purposes
  • chefspec (1.2.0) - Write RSpec examples for Opscode Chef recipes
  • kitchen-bluebox (0.5.0) - Kitchen::Driver::Bluebox - A Blue Box block API driver for Test Kitchen
  • kitchen-cloudstack (0.1.3) - A Test Kitchen Driver for Cloudstack
  • kitchen-digitalocean (0.1.1) - A Test Kitchen Digital Ocean driver
  • kitchen-docker (0.1.3) - A Test Kitchen Driver for Docker
  • kitchen-ec2 (0.4.0) - Kitchen::Driver::Ec2 - A Test Kitchen Driver for Ec2
  • kitchen-openstack (0.2.0) - A Test Kitchen OpenStack Nova driver
  • kitchen-rackspace (0.2.0) - A Test Kitchen Rackspace driver
  • kitchen-scribe (0.2.0) - Knife plugin for tracking your chef configuration changes
  • kitchen-vagrant (0.10.0) - Kitchen::Driver::Vagrant - A Vagrant Driver for Test Kitchen.
  • knife-google (1.0.0) - Google Compute Engine Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-joyent (0.2.1) - Joyent CloudAPI Support for Chef's Knife Comman
  • knife-nodefu (0.2.1) - A knife plugin for simple node creation automation
  • knife-openstack (0.8.0) - OpenStack Compute Support for Chef's Knife Command
  • knife-setup (1.1.1) - Allows you to bootsrap machine and set role and env.
  • knife-testcoverage (1.0.1) - A simple plugin to report on minitest-handler coverage in a cookbook
  • ridley (0.12.2) - A reliable Chef API client with a clean syntax
  • strainer (2.0.1) - Run isolated cookbook tests against your chef repository with Strainer.
  • vagrant-berkshelf (1.2.0) - A Vagrant plugin to add Berkshelf integration to the Chef provisioners
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.