[chef] Re: [collectd] cookbook upgrade

[Greg Fitzgerald < >]

Hi,

I recently went down this same round to find out Miah Johnson already had
a cookbook that did most of what I needed found here.

https://github.com/miah/chef-collectd

I ended up just forking hers, fixing bugs, and adding a bunch more tests. 
There
was a new release cut recently with these fixes.

--gregf

On 2014-08-27 20:57+0300, 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