You may have noticed over the last few months that a new series of videos has been appearing on the Chef Youtube channel. We’ve started a new series of videos called Fresh New Stuff to show off some of the fun stuff we’ve been working on. Our goal is to show off new and interesting functionality that you might otherwise have missed. So far we have three episodes with more expected in the future.
This episode shows the new custom resource functionality introduced in Chef client 12.5. We show the origins of resources in Chef with definitions and LWRPs and how custom resources build upon those features to make writing resources easier than ever.
This episode covers the state of community cookbook testing and shows you how to perform testing in Travis CI. We cover a basic lint / unit test in Travis CI with ChefDK as well as full integration testing using kitchen-dokken.
This episode covers everything we’ve released in Chef 12 between 12.0 and the 12.19 release. We cover the large number of new Ohai plugins, chef resources, and great helpers that improve the Chef experience for cookbook authors.