Tag chef

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Gotcha: AWS SDK Proxy Setup with Test Kitchen (2 mins read).

How to avoid odd proxy issues when using the AWS SDK, when using Test Kitchen.

Wed, 06 May 2020 14:42 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #test-kitchen #proxy.

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Using Chef to Delete Files that aren't in a List (2 mins read).

How to delete files in a directory that don't match a list.

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:10 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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ChefSpec Gotcha: Using render_file When Deleting Files (2 mins read).

How to use render_file with ChefSpec when you're deleting the file.

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:44 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefspec.

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Chef Attributes and default.rb - it's in the name (3 mins read).

Why you should only be setting defaults in your Chef attributes, and moving heavy lifting elsewhere.

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:49 by Jamie Tanna . #nablopomo #chef #chefspec.

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Setting up a custom RubyGems Repository for Chef in Test Kitchen (1 mins read).

How to use a private RubyGems repository for your Chef gem dependencies in Test Kitchen.

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:33 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #blogumentation #test-kitchen.

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How Many Gadgets Does the Kitchen Need?! The Many Tools for Chef Dependency Management (5 mins read).

Looking at the different dependency management solutions of Chef, and how, where and why you would use each one.

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 14:59 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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Performing a No-Op with chef-client using JSON (2 mins read).

How to perform a chef-client run without executing anything.

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:33 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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How to run tests from the ChefDK in Docker (6 mins read).

How to get up and running with the ChefDK to perform common tests, such as unit tests and linting.

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 23:07 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefdk #docker.

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Using Fake Cookbooks for Writing ChefSpec Tests for your Custom Chef Resources (3 mins read).

A directory structure I've found quite useful for writing ChefSpec tests for custom resources, by creating a fake cookbook within the cookbook you're testing.

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:18 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #custom-resource #chefspec.

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Chef 14 Upgrade: Change in ValidationFailed error messages when setting required properties (2 mins read).

The updated error message returned by a Chef ValidationFailed error, when you're specifying which properties are required on a custom resource.

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:35 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-14-upgrade #chef #chefspec #chef-14.

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Revert 'Some knowledge-sharing news' (5 mins read).

The unfortunate decision to cancel my Packt training courses.

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:40 by Jamie Tanna . #news #events #chef #testing #tdd.

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Test-Driven Chef Cookbook Development Using ChefSpec (and a sprinkling of InSpec) (38 mins read).

Using the example of deploying and running a Java JAR file as a way to show the lifecycle of a fully test-driven Chef cookbook.

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 14:52 by Jamie Tanna . #howto #blogumentation #chef #test-kitchen #chefspec #tdd #testing #guide.

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Using chef-shell to interactively debug attributes and recipes (5 mins read).

How to use chef-shell to see attribute config and recipes, with and without a Chef Server.

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:38 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #chef-shell #blogumentation #test-kitchen #chef-server #chefdk.

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OggCamp 2018 (21 mins read).

A look at my time at OggCamp 2018, the talks I presented and attended.

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:18 by Jamie Tanna . #events #oggcamp #chef #public-speaking #openapi #swagger #free-software #open-source #collaborative-culture.

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Some exciting job and knowledge-sharing news (4 mins read).

Moving into Quality Engineering, publishing Chef training courses, conference speaking about Chef at OggCamp and the complex mess that is this very static website at DevOpsDays London.

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 22:24 by Jamie Tanna . #news #capital-one #events #chef #testing #conference #job #tdd #oggcamp #devopsdays.

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Notes from the AWS + Chef Dev Day Roadshow in London (13 mins read).

Notes from the AWS Dev Day Roadshow in London, where we got to play around with Chef, Chef Automate and InSpec using AWS OpsWorks.

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 22:25 by Jamie Tanna . #aws #chef #events #chef-server #opsworks #cloud-formation #cloud-custodian #deployment #containers #chef-automate #inspec.

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Beware: deleteing a file in Chef doesn't actually delete it (3 mins read).

Why you should explicitly add backup false when deleteing a file through Chef, to avoid leaving potentially sensitive files still on the box.

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:54 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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Morsels of Goodness: What's Cooking in Chef 14? (5 mins read).

A look at the new features coming in the new Chef 14 release, as well as what to watch out for when upgrading.

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:09 by Jamie Tanna . #chef-14 #chef #foodcritic #cookstyle #rubocop #ruby #test-kitchen.

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Bundling Common Rake Tasks into a Gem (8 mins read).

An example of how to create a helper gem for common Rake task, using the real-world example of Chef cookbooks.

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:17 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefdk #gem #ruby #rake #foodcritic #rubocop #rspec #knife-cookbook-doc #gitlab-ci.

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Running docker login as another user in Chef (2 mins read).

Hitting the error permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket when trying to run docker login as a non-root user in Chef.

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:14 by Jamie Tanna . #docker #chef #blogumentation.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: knife-cookbook-doc Rubocop Updates (1 mins read).

Disabling the Missing space after # and Do not use block comments errors for your knife-cookbook-doc formatted comments.

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:30 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef #knife-cookbook-doc #chef-13 #documentation #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: knife-cookbook-doc gem upgrade (1 mins read).

Fixing odd Logger entries in autogenerated knife-cookbook-doc README.mds for Chef 13.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef #knife-cookbook-doc #chef-13 #documentation.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Deprecation of Namespace Collisions in Custom Resources (1 mins read).

Preparing for breaking changes in Chef 14 by renaming property_name to new_resource.property_name in Custom Resources.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-deprecation #chef #chef-13 #chef-14.

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Testing Chef's ruby_blocks with ChefSpec (3 mins read).

Testing implementation of a ruby_block in ChefSpec, to ensure that the code executes as expected.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:01 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefspec #testing.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Lessons Learnt and Documented for Posterity (1 mins read).

Notes on the main problems encountered when upgrading from Chef 12 to Chef 13, both with ChefSpec and Rubocop.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop #chef-13-upgrade-chefspec #chef #rubocop #chefspec #chef-13 #chefspec-7 #rubocop-0-49.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for lazy Parameters (1 mins read).

How to resolve the Parenthesize the param lazy Rubocop error when upgrading your cookbook to Chef 13.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop #chef #rubocop #chef-13 #rubocop-0-49.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for Testing render_file with ChefSpec and a with_content Block (1 mins read).

How to resolve the Parenthesize the param render_file Rubocop error when upgrading your cookbook to Chef 13.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-chefspec #chef #chefspec.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for Word Array Literals (%w) (1 mins read).

A one-liner shell command to fix Rubocop errors %w-literals should be delimited by [ and ].

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop #chef #rubocop #chef-13 #rubocop-0-49.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Testing ruby_blocks with ChefSpec (1 mins read).

Replace your block.old_run_action with block.block.call to trigger ruby_blocks within ChefSpec 7 and Chef 13.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-chefspec #chef #chefspec #chef-13 #chefspec-7.

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SSLError When Running Berkshelf Behind a Proxy (2 mins read).

Getting around the pesky OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError SSLv2/v3 read server hello A error when running Berkshelf behind a proxy.

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:44 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #blogumentation #proxy #command-line #shell #chefdk #berkshelf.

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Running service resources in Kitchen-Docker (3 mins read).

How to get up and running with service resources when running Test Kitchen with the Docker driver, in this example for use with GitLab CI.

Sun, 03 Sep 2017 20:23 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #kitchen #docker #howto.

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Trusting Self-Signed Certificates from the Chef Development Kit (2 mins read).

How to get the ChefDK (and associated tools) to trust internal / self-signed certificates, in an easy oneliner.

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:10 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefdk #certificates #berkshelf.

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Getting around Permission Denied when running ChefSpec (3 mins read).

How to handle getting an EACCES when trying to run ChefSpec on a recipe.

Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:23 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefspec #chefdk.

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Testing include_recipes with Chef and ChefSpec (2 mins read).

How to best test include_recipes within your Chef recipes, as well as how to ensure that you aren't running any dependent recipes in your tests.

Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:35 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #tdd #chefspec.

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Building Chef Cookbooks with GitLab (Part 1) (11 mins read).

An introduction to how to build a cookbook using GitLab's Continuous Integration platform in conjunction with kitchen-docker.

Thu, 25 May 2017 11:51 by Jamie Tanna . #guide #howto #blogumentation #gitlab #chef #test-kitchen #docker #gitlab-ci.