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:

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 :slight_smile:

Thanks!

–John

Looks like there might be a little syntax error on the "snazzy new resource
syntax" link

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:44 AM, John Keiser jkeiser@chef.io wrote:

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 :slight_smile:

Thanks!

--John

Congratulations!

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

Thanks,
Jos

From: John Keiser
Reply-To: "chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com"
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 11:44 AM
To: "chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com"
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 :slight_smile:

Thanks!

–John

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 josb@mobileiron.com wrote:

Congratulations!

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

Thanks,
Jos

From: John Keiser
Reply-To: "chef@lists.opscode.com"
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 11:44 AM
To: "chef@lists.opscode.com"
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 :slight_smile:

Thanks!

--John

Fixed, thanks!

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Greg Barker fletch@fletchowns.net wrote:

Looks like there might be a little syntax error on the "snazzy new
resource syntax" link

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:44 AM, John Keiser jkeiser@chef.io wrote:

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 :slight_smile:

Thanks!

--John

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

Cheers,
Jos

From: John Keiser
Reply-To: "chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com"
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 12:22 PM
To: "chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com"
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 <josb@mobileiron.commailto:josb@mobileiron.com> wrote:
Congratulations!

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

Thanks,
Jos

From: John Keiser
Reply-To: "chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com"
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 11:44 AM
To: "chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com"
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 :slight_smile:

Thanks!

–John