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- Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Cooking Utensils...
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 14:53:48 -0400
I think Morgan is asking for people to list their toolset, not explain
the ones referenced.
More of: "I use these tools in this manner" kind of thing.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Ranjib Dey
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berkshelf - think of this as bundler or a package manager (like yum) [i know
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oversimplified]. It reads a file where you describe what cookbooks u need
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(with version) and from where to get them (chef servers, git repos, local
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files etc), it does the grabbing and assembling part of you , additionally
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it can also upload all of the cookbooks to a chef server.
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test-kitchen - an integration testing framework. You can write you tests,
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and then use test-kitchen to run them against multiple platform (aka
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operating system). Test kitchen also reads a file (.kitech.yaml) where you
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specify what to run in each platform etc.
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foodcritic - a lint tool. which check common styling errors against a
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predefined set of rules. this is not testing but more of style check (some
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of the checks strongly suggest there is a bug).
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i think chef-docs has a glossary .. if plase feel free to drop mails in the
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list, this will also serve as feedback for the docsite,
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ranjib
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On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Morgan Blackthorne
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> I know that there's a keychain of an ecosystem built up around Chef. What
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> I don't really know is what the various parts are for. I see a bunch of
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> Is there, or could there be, a page on the Chef wiki that talks about
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> tools related to Chef. Off the top of my head, it would include:
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> Berkshelf
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> test-kitchen
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> food-critic
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> many more that I'm forgetting in my pain and Ambien haze...
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> Having a short description of what it does and where to get it would be
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> awesome.
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