[chef] Re: Reusable steps: PoV request

[AJ Christensen < >]

Yo,

On 21 March 2011 20:03, Hedge Hog 
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 wrote:
> Hi,
> After some patches to split steps out of Cucumber-Nagios, Auxesis
> asked me to take the project over.
> That should happen in the next while.
>
> Essentially the idea was that the gem Cuken (pronounced cookin') be to
> Cucumber-Nagios use cases what Aruba is to Cucumber.
> Of course Cuken uses Aruba's steps.
>
> I see that some of Chef's steps were in Cucumber-Nagios - they are now
> (refactored in some cases) in Cuken.
> In the course of some work I find myself needing some Chef related
> steps, which of course exist in Chef in one form or another.
> It seems sensible that I copy these into Cuken.
>
> My question:  Is there much interest in such a library of reusable
> Chef steps, and would Chef (upstream) even consider using such a
> library?  It would mean a Chef dev dependency on Cuken.
> Ideally I'd like to keep things such that you can require just those
> steps you need. e.g

Library of reusable Chef steps is music to my ears. I was only just
discussing this internally and on twitter, today :)

>
> require 'cuken/chef/knife'
> and
> World(::Cuken::Api::Chef::Knife)
>
> Appreciate any thoughts or feedback.
> For instance one issue is what is the assumed feature runtime
> env/location: The chef server machine, the chef client machine, the
> dev machine (or will it be possible to be agnostic about this?)

I've always hoped to have (reusable, Chef-y) features run on the
clients, for post-convergence system integration.

Regards,

AJ

>
> Best wishes.
>
> P.S.
> I also find myself needing some VirtualBox related steps (from the
> virtualbox gem), so the scope of Cuken is likely to be dev-sysops use
> cases.
>
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