Author:
Julian Dunn
Julian is a former Chef employee
Doing Wrapper Cookbooks Right
By Julian Dunn
One great thing about the Chef community is how various people have dreamed up ways to use Chef. One of the most popular patterns is the wrapper cookbook, first popularized by Awesome Chef Bryan Berry‘s blog post, How to Write Reusable Chef Cookbooks, Gangnam Style.
Read moreChef Roles Aren’t Evil
By Julian Dunn
“If roles are evil, what about Al-Qaeda?” You may laugh, but this is an actual quote from a session at the Opscode Community Summit this year.
Read moreDemystifying Common Idioms in Chef Recipes
By Julian Dunn
Here at Opscode, we think of the Chef recipe DSL, or domain-specific language, as being quite straightforward to learn. Despite the fact that under the hood it’s all Ruby, you most definitely do not need to know Ruby to use Chef.
Read moreCooking on Windows with Chef
By Julian Dunn
Chef has had a long history of support for Microsoft Windows as a platform, dating back to 2011 when Opscode first released the knife-windows plugin to bootstrap and manage Windows servers.
Read morePackt Publishing releases “Instant Chef Starter” book
By Julian Dunn
Packt Publishing has just released “Instant Chef Starter” by John Ewart, another installment in Packt’s “Instant” series of short topics in programming and system administration. The book is attractively priced at $7.99 for the eBook format. It’s also well edited and a quick read at 70 pages.
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