Chef Workflow - Rake Tasks & Support
This gem provides a set of rake tasks broken up logically to support a chef workflow, and tooling to assist with driving those tasks. It is intended to complement a chef repository to keep interaction between multiple consumers of it fairly uniform.
Some of the tasks it provides are:
- Uploading your cookbooks, roles, environments and databags with the defaults expecting a layout similar to the opscode example chef-repo
- Resolving your cookbook's dependencies, with tools like librarian or berkshelf
- Lint your cookbooks with foodcritic
- Creating a chef server for testing in a single command
- Running unit tests against networks of provisioned machines -- see chef-workflow-testlib for more information.
- Create machines on the fly that know about your chef server, work with them in a change/converge/inspect cycle, all without having to fire up a ton of machines each time or even have to care about where they live or worry about forgetting to tear them down. We track that for you.
Most of the Meat is on the Wiki
This project is a part of chef-workflow.
Our wiki contains a fair amount of information, including how to try chef-workflow without actually doing anything more than cloning a repository and running a few commands.
Contributing
- fork the project
- make a branch
- add your stuff
- push your branch to your repo
- send a pull request
Note: modifications to gem metadata, author lists, and other credits without rationale will be rejected immediately.
Credits
Author: Erik Hollensbe
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