Introducing... Casserole

[Olivier Gutknecht <olg@fotonauts.com>]

Ohai chefs,

What is Casserole ? An OS X client for Chef !

Vrritteeen in Objective-C and Cocoa for Mac OS X 10.5, it replicates  
in a native application some of the Chef Server Web UI functions.

We're releasing it today in open-source under an Apache License.

        http://github.com/fotonauts/casserole
        http://github.com/fotonauts/casserole/downloads
        http://code.fotonauts.com

Things that work:
- *read-only* access to a chef server - I wanted to clean up the UI  
before tackling the write part.
- Exploring nodes, registrations, cookbooks (no template content for  
now due to a REST API limitation).
- Access to the search indexes
- Live filtering / matching in node and search results.

Things planned for the next version:
- Saving search requests
- Read/Write support: changing attributes, tags and recipes

Things I'd like to do someday
- Connecting to multiple chef servers
- MacRuby integration (testing cookbooks from Casserole ? pushing  
configs to the server ?)
- Support for the cookbook metadata architecture when it's available
- Better integration with present and future Chef awesomeness

Please note that Casserole is nothing but a side project - although  
we're starting to use it internally - so no warranty, no support, no  
schedules, etc. And don't get angry if Casserole  shuts down your  
entire cloud (which would be an accomplishment with a read-only  
version).  But hey, it's open-source, you can fix it.

There's a compiled version on http://github.com/fotonauts/casserole/downloads

Feel free to send feedback on casserole@fotonauts.com, and to use  
GitHub issue tracker.

Bork bork bork !

Ol.
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Olivier Gutknecht
Director, Server Software
Fotonauts