UsingChef Issue 36 [feedly]

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UsingChef Issue 36
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Using Chef Newsletter View this email in your browser Using Chef Issue 36 While compiling this newsletter it occurred to me that the chef community is quite a diverse group of people. Windows/*nix Admins, DBAs, Ruby coders and more. Thats what makes it fun to be a part of! On to the news - Articles Help test the future of Windows Infrastructure Testing on Test-Kitchen Windows test kitchen has made huge improvements over the past few months. Go give the preview a try and report bugs. via Matt Wrock @mwrockx Hacking AWS OpsWorks A great overview of OpsWorks from a fairly large operation. They also built a gem opsicle to help manage OpsWorks. via Andy Fleener @andyfleener Chef 12.1.0 chef_gem resource warnings If you use chef_gem resource there are some changes coming in chef 12.1.0. via Chef Office Hours @ChefOfficeHours Integrating Chef with OpenStack instances A good example of using cloud-init to bootstrap chef on OpenStack. via Dan @ Learning configuration management as a DBA A tale from a DBA who went from How To docs to managing a DB cluster with chef. via DB Smasher @dbsmasher Simplify OpsWorks Dev with Packer In a follow up to his recently updated Virtualizing AWS OpsWorks with Vagrant Michael Greiling takes a look at how to make developing in OpsWorks easier with Packer. via Michael Greiling @mikegreiling A new kind of Resource: the resource cookbook Chef Resources are incredibly important to creating good, useful, reusable cookbooks. Yet people often don't create them because it's harder than it should be. We need to change that. via John Keiser @jkeiser Zap Cookbook Zap is a very interesting cookbook that removes resources (users, directories, etc) that are not managed by chef. via Joe Nuspl @JoeNuspl Recently Released chef-vault v1.2.4 chef-client v4.2.4 aws v2.6.4 tomcat v0.17.2 jetty v0.1.5 windows v1.36.6 knife-windows v0.8.4 vagrant-azure v1.1.0 - Win/Mac/Linux Tweet of the week @BonzoESC "wtf this movie isn't about configuration management at all http://t.co/xHNRxvUtQ9" Copyright © 2015 UsingChef, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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