Chef-runner v0.5.0

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Ohai Chefs!

I just released chef-runner version 0.5.0.

This release brings a couple of improvements to how cookbook
dependencies are resolved, making it possible to use chef-runner as a
"general purpose Chef provisioner" outside of a cookbook directory.
(Thanks to @guilhem for the idea!)

For this, chef-runner now follows these rules:

  • If the current directory contains a Berksfile, Berkshelf is used
    to manage cookbooks.

  • If the current directory contains a Cheffile, Librarian-Chef is
    used to manage cookbooks.

  • If the current directory is a cookbook with a metadata.rb file
    that defines the cookbook's name, only this cookbook is copied to the
    right place.

  • The same is done when dependencies have already been resolved with
    Berkshelf or Librarian-Chef to reduce overall provisioning time.

  • metadata.rb is only required when defining recipes in a format
    other than cookbook::recipe. The standard syntax cookbook::recipe
    should always work.

  • chef-runner fails if no cookbooks can be found.

Other improvements:

  • Configure Chef to verify all HTTPS connections. This removes the SSL
    warning message printed at the start of every Chef run. (Internally,
    ssl_verify_mode is set to :verify_peer, which is going to be the
    new default someday.)

  • Add script/coverage to generate code coverage statistics for Go packages.

  • Test dependency handling and provisioning more thoughtfully.

  • Log most executed commands when log level is set to debug.

  • Improve many parts of the README.

  • Add Go documentation to some packages.

I would love to get some feedback on the new release and how I can
further improve chef-runner to make it more useful. Simply leave a
reply here or reach out to me on Twitter (I'm @mlafeldt). Thanks!

-Mathias