[chef-dev] Policyfile Feature

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

Hello Chefs,  

Many of you have heard about the Policyfile feature we’re working on or heard 
it mentioned in the context of other discussions. I wanted to wait a little 
while to make a big announcement about it because talk is cheap and code 
speaks for itself. While we don’t have anything you can play with just yet, 
we’ve implemented a lot of the library code into ChefDK over the past months 
and I was able to give a demo internally at Chef Software of the Policyfile 
working end-to-end (albeit with a few hacks).

Since we’re getting close, I wrote up a fairly comprehensive README document 
about the feature, which I encourage you to read here:

https://github.com/opscode/chef-dk/blob/203b18f55a13656b53ad71e511d5d1cb12a40f56/POLICYFILE_README.md

The document is part of this pull request: 
https://github.com/opscode/chef-dk/pull/122

If you have any questions or comments about any of this, feel free to reply 
to this thread or ask them on the pull request.

Oh, and a quick description of our status: There’s a couple input validation 
issues we have to fix before we’re comfortable sharing the feature. Once we 
get those taken care of, we’ll add a CLI you can use to preview the feature.

Thanks,  

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Daniel DeLeo