[chef] Re: [chef-dev] Re: The Great Workflow RFC of 2014

[Sean OMeara < >]

I'll write up the Berkshelf Way workflow today

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> FYI, the pull request is here: https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/pull/34
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> Daniel DeLeo
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> On Sunday, July 27, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Adam Jacob wrote:
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>> I have posted and RFC that proposes two 'supported' workflows for Chef. 
>> This is my attempt to take the various pain-points enumerated on the list, 
>> on irc, and on twitter over the last few weeks and propose a solution. In 
>> watching and listening to folks frustrations with workflow, it feels like 
>> you can boil it down to a few things:
>> The monolithic chef-repo works great for a lot of people.
>> The "Berkshelf Way" (as opposed to Berkshelf the tool) doesn't solve a 
>> problem everyone feels they have. Meanwhile, for those who feel like they 
>> have that problem, they <3 it.
>> We have put ourselves in an awkward spot, where much new tooling targets 
>> the Berkshelf Way implicitly.
>> Regardless of the workflow, everyone wants the testing tools to work.
>> Some folks dislike the Berkshelf implementation
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>> This RFC proposes making two workflows "supported", which means we expect 
>> them to work all the time, be supported in documentation and the 
>> community, and for tool builders to target them.
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>> It also proposes adding generators and workflow commands to the 'chef' 
>> command in Chef DK. This means we can make the target for documentation 
>> and tool builders much smaller, as the work of noticing which workflow you 
>> prefer is done by the tooling. Where there is overlap with knife, we are 
>> going to subsume that functionality, and make it compatible at the options 
>> level (and perhaps turn the knife plugins themselves into wrappers.)
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>> Lets fix it! Let me know what I didn't cover.
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>> I'm explicitly not detailing implementation, or even putting effort in to 
>> what the future might hold for either workflow, or a third workflow. Lets 
>> document and standardize what we have, make the experience better, then we 
>> can talk about improvements.
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>> Adam
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