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cookbooks
Announcing Chef Cookbook Support in JFrog Artifactory
By Julian Dunn
In partnership with JFrog, we are delighted to announce that Artifactory now supports Chef cookbooks as an artifact format. This functionality is available in Artifactory starting with version 5.1. Chef cookbook support inside Artifactory is significant for a number of reasons. Many of our customers say that they already have an artifact store with Artifactory.
Read moreWriting Wrapper Cookbooks
This post first appeared on The Wandering IT Consultant blog. What is a Wrapper Cookbook? Simply put, a wrapper cookbook is just a regular cookbook that includes recipes from other cookbooks.
Read moreCurrent State Clarity, Part 4 – Chef Provisioning
This post is part 4 of a 4 part series. Read Part 1 for an overview of the current state of the ecosystem, Part 2 on Policyfiles, and Part 3 on Push Jobs. I spent a good portion of my career tackling provisioning problems.
Read moreWatch: Writing Elegant Tests
On December 20th, I presented a live webinar on Writing Elegant Tests. Watch the recording below to hear me explain powerful RSpec features that you can use immediately to reduce code duplication, make your tests more expressive, and helpers that are exportable between all your cookbooks.
Read moreSet up a Patch Management System Using Chef Automate
By Nick Rycar
How does Chef handle patch management? The short answer is: it depends. For some organizations, patch management is simply a matter of running vendor-recommended updates on a fairly regular interval, while having the flexibility to install on-demand updates as vulnerabilities like 0-days require.
Read moreTest Ohai Plugins with ChefSpec and InSpec
You can test your custom Ohai plugins with ChefSpec using the chefspec-ohai gem, and with InSpec in Test Kitchen. This frees you from the traditionally difficult task of debugging a failing Ohai plugin. In this post, I’ll focus solely on testing an Ohai plugin.
Read moreArista and the Chef Partner Cookbook Program
By JJ Asghar
I’d like to announce that Arista is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. They have certified the EOS Cookbook which manages the configuration of EOS network devices. Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments.
Read moreInSpec Language Support in Atom and VS Code
During the webinar “Better Tools for a Better Life” I stressed the importance of code snippets to increase your efficiency. I found that two of the editors I used during the presentation, and in my every day practice, were lacking support for InSpec.
Read moreThe Audit Cookbook: A How-To
The audit cookbook is a tool used to run InSpec tests and send the results to chef-compliance (either directly or via chef-server) or to chef-visibility in an automated way. We recently took on an overhaul of the audit cookbook to rewrite the content using chef handlers.
Read moreIcinga and the Chef Partner Cookbook Program
By JJ Asghar
We’re happy to announce that Icinga is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. They have certified the Icinga2 Cookbook which allows you to install and configure Icinga2 and the corresponding web interface Icingaweb2. Icinga2 Icinga2 is an open-source tool for monitoring and metric collection. Its configuration is object based and rule-driven.
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