Dan DeLeo danielsdeleo

Hi Chefs,

We've released a Chef 11.6.0 release candidate for testing.

How To Get It:

Use the installer script to fetch the appropriate package:

curl -L "https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh" | sudo bash -s -- -p

Hi Chefs,

We've recently merged a substantial rewrite of Chef's file provider family to master, and it will be released in 11.6.0. As part of these changes, we've standardized the way the different providers create files and update content, and added some cool improvements and features. But first, a word of caution:

Changes to Previously Undefined Behaviors

Deps in Chef Solo

I totally agree that the change from metadata dependencies being optional on solo to required in Chef 11 is not an optimal experience. But it's also true that the new behavior is beneficial for everyone. This issue was painful enough that it's been raised over and over again on the ticket tracker:

Chef 11.4.4 and 10.24.4 Released

We've released Chef 11.4.4 and 10.24.4 to fix some bugs introduced in the previous release:

CHEF-3432: Chef client was keeping references to "stale" LWRP classes, which caused a memory leak when running Chef as a daemon without the --fork option.
CHEF-4117: The patch for CHEF-3432 would cause Chef to fail if there was a constant defined on Object with the same name as a LWRP resource.

CHEF-3694 Proposal

Background Reading

Issue Summary

The core of the problem is that users can input two resources with the

Quick Chef Hacking

chef-apply is coming in Chef 11. Until then, here's what I do.

solo.rb

cookbook_path "/tmp/cookbooks"

Cookbook Dir

mkdir -p /tmp/cookbooks/test/recipes/

	##
	# binding definition API.
	# Examples taken from nagios cookbook

	bind(:nagios_service_name).to("nagios")

	bind(:hostgroups) do
	search(:role, ":").map {\|r\| r.name }
	end

	# -- mode: ruby --
	# vi: set ft=ruby :

	Vagrant::Config.run do \|config\|

	config.vm.define 'shortbus' do \|c\|
	c.vm.box = "opscode-centos-5.5"
	c.vm.box_url = "http://opscode-vm.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/boxes/opscode-centos-5.5.box"
	c.vm.network :hostonly, "192.168.93.93"

	chef > Chef::VERSION
	=> "10.14.2"

	### Hidden state

	chef > i = node[:network][:interfaces] ; nil
	=> nil
	chef > i.en0.to_hash
	=> {"addresses"=>{"20:c9:d0:45:45:63"=>{"family"=>"lladdr"}, "fe80::22c9:d0ff:fe45:4563"=>{"family"=>"inet6", "prefixlen"=>"64", "scope"=>"Link"}, "172.28.8.77"=>{"family"=>"inet", "netmask"=>"255.255.255.0", "broadcast"=>"172.28.8.255"}}, "mtu"=>"1500", "flags"=>["UP", "BROADCAST", "SMART", "RUNNING", "SIMPLEX", "MULTICAST"], "type"=>"en", "number"=>"0", "encapsulation"=>"Ethernet", "arp"=>{"169.254.255.255"=>"0:22:d:11:4b:48", "172.28.8.1"=>"0:22:d:11:4b:48", "172.28.8.255"=>"ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"}}
	chef > i.en0.to_hash

	# See also: https://github.com/danielsdeleo/knife-plugins/blob/master/key_check.rb

	ddeleo@boltzmann chef-oss-dev > knife key check chef-oss-dev-validator .chef/kallistec.pem
	ERROR: Mismatch:
	ERROR: /Users/ddeleo/opscode-ops/chef-oss-dev/.chef/kallistec.pem is not a valid key for client chef-oss-dev-validator
	Public key extracted from private key:
	-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
	MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA6tIhFprz5efiFF0zogxB
	KBkn72n6x9aGbedzPnEG+ZiObyzrH5MeO7aYv51HfLBEozSMxiJxnADCN4Bus0Sr
	8UHYZAKFLCkx67rpZHvl6xggEYHDSmMtUNNBHOQRIIbYi79JZeQTcKQNSzfyltiU