[chef] CHEF-13 - dry-run / no-op mode

[jon stuart < >]

Hi,

I had a great weekend getting Chef up and running on some lab kit,
looking at it as an alternative to homegrown scripts and Puppet. It's an
impressive system so firstly thanks for writing and sharing it :-)

I was wondering about the no-op stuff hinted at in CHEF-13. For me the
ability to eyeball proposed changes on (a sample of) nodes is pretty
important, both for avoiding silly mistakes whilst learning the ropes
and as a checkpoint before rolling out scarily large changes.

If Chef has this ability I can't find it, and if it doesn't then I'm
wondering if the problem is something a keen Rubyist could work on. Only
48 hours I'm admittedly naive about Chef's internals, it might be a hard
one that needs serious attention from core developers rather than me
blundering in!

Sorry if this is a FAQ or similar, I couldn't find much mention of it
other than the ticket.

Regards, jon.

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-13