[chef] Re: [collectd] cookbook upgrade

[Douglas Thrift < >]

Hello,

I haven't had time to look at what you've done. But, here at RightScale
we have a fork that added support for CentOS that we haven't gotten
around to contributing back. You may wish to take a look and see if you
can incorporate similar changes into your version:

https://github.com/EfrainOlivares/chef-collectd/compare/generalize_install_for_both_centos_and_ubuntu

Douglas William Thrift
<http://douglasthrift.net/>

On 8/27/2014 10:57 AM, Jek Sirex wrote:
> Ohai, Chefs!
> 
> Recently, I've started work on upgrading cookbook collectd:
> https://github.com/coderanger/chef-collectd ;(which looks abandoned)
> Now I finished with completely rewritten cookbook:
> https://github.com/jsirex/cookbook-collectd ;
> 
> I hope that is better now, but it supports Chef ~> 11.0.
> 
> If somebody is interesting on collectd cookbook it will be great if you
> will try my :) (It is my first try to write serious cookbook).
> 
> Here is major changes:
> 
>  1.
>     Added many skeleton files (Gemfile, Berksfile, Rake, Kitchen, etc)
>  2. Introduced full testing with rubocop, foodcritic, chefspec, test-kitchen
>  3.
>     Attributes have been converted from symbols to strings
>  4. Cookbook by default does not install any plugin
>  5. Supported platform for now Debian and Ubuntu
>  6. Definition has been removed
>  7. Added HWR and many HWP (provider is chosen dynamically by name of
>     the plugin)
>  8. Added possibility to multiply times call collectd_plugin resource
>     from different recipes or cookbooks. Options are merged!
>  9. Cookbook is flexible: if you want to add custom plugin or override
>     behavior of existing one just define class
>     Chef::Provider::Collectd<MyCustomPlugin>Plugin <
>     Chef::Provider::CollectdPlugin.
> 10. Recipe "collectd::_test_plugins" added. You can use it as
>     example/reference. Also specs are using this recipe for tests
> 
> 
> best regards,
> Yauhen