[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Chef 12.5 and ChefDK 0.9 release candidates available!

[Yoshi Spendiff < >]

https://docs.chef.io/custom_resources.html

"Once built, the custom resource may be used in a recipe just like the any of the resources that are built into Chef. "

Also, one thing I'm not clear on, do you no longer need to make provider files at all for custom resources in 12.5 or do you still need to make provider files for resource that don't only use platform resources? i.e. if previously there was a provider file that defined a few functions and ran a bunch of ruby code to do things does that all now just go in the resource file?

On 1 October 2015 at 12:26, Jos Backus < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Perfect, thanks John! I’m glad a cleaned up custom resource implementation made it into core Chef.

Cheers,

Jos

From: John Keiser
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Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 12:22 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Chef 12.5 and ChefDK 0.9 release candidates available!

You can use "provides" or "resource_name" for that. Just put "resource_name :foo" (if you want to see "foo" in all the output and make "cookbook_filename" not even work) or "provides :foo" (if you want your resource to be addressable by both "foo" and "cookbook_filename").

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Jos Backus < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Congratulations!

Any chance we can name resources explicitly rather than being tied to <cookbook>_<filename>? Like ‘provides :foo’?

Thanks,

Jos

From: John Keiser
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Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 11:44 AM
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Subject: [chef] Chef 12.5 and ChefDK 0.9 release candidates available!

Hey everyone!

We'd like to ship Chef 12.5 and ChefDK 0.9 soon with a slew of new features, and we'd like to get some feedback on them before we go live. 

Read up on the features and download here: https://www.chef.io/blog/chef-12-5-and-chefdk-0-9-prerelease-announcement/

Here's what you can do:

- Try out the new policy and custom resource features on ChefDK 0.9!

- Run the Chef 12.5 client against your cookbooks to make sure the new release works for you!

We've already gone through a ton of testing with this release, but we can't make it great without you :)

Thanks!

--John