[chef] Re: Chef 0.10 RC is available

[Miquel Torres < >]

Nice! Looking forward to using environments.

What about databag support for Chef Solo? You didn't include it in the
hightlights, is the feature not included in 0.10?

Cheers,
Miquel Torres


2011/4/19 Daniel DeLeo 
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> After a lot of work on the 0.10 Beta releases, we've moved on to the first
> 0.10 Release Candidate. We'd love your help testing it out to make sure we
> find any remaining critical bugs before general release.
>
> ## HIGHLIGHTS ##
> * Environments: Restrict cookbook versions and set attributes based on
> environment.
> * Cookbook version freezing: prevent updates to cookbook versions (useful
> for prod ;)
> * Encrypted data bags: encrypt data bag values such as passwords and private
> keys
> * knife output formatting and error handling improvments
> * knife plugins
> * repo-wide "chefignore" files
> * improved search wildcarding
> * improved search performance and stability
> * improved knife windows support
> * clearer, more useful chef-client output
> ## INSTALLING ##
> On the client side, you can install with:
> (sudo) gem install chef --pre
> On the server side, we now have a bootstrap install available:
> sudo chef-solo -j chef.json -c solo.rb -r
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-0.10.0.rc.0.tar.gz
> If you have a 0.10 server (or are an Opscode Platform user) you can upgrade
> knife on your workstation to get the benefit of the knife UX enhancements
> without needing to upgrade chef-client on your nodes.
> Thanks to everyone who tested the beta releases!
> --
> Dan DeLeo
>