A daily recap of the PowerShell Summit 2018, covering sessions on mentorship, configuration management tools, and graph databases with Neo4j.
A software engineer announces his departure from Chef Software after facing severe online harassment and death threats within the Chef community.
Chef 12 ends support for Ruby 1.8 and older 1.9 versions, requiring Ruby 1.9.3+. This allows cookbook developers to use modern Ruby features.
Explains why Chef runs fail with authentication errors and provides a simple fix using the no_lazy_load setting.
Explains a workflow using Berkshelf and GitHub to manage and test interdependent Chef cookbooks during development.
A developer's journey to add Chef cookbook badges to the Shields.io service, addressing inconsistent badge design and lack of cookbook support.
A talk on Chef Sugar, a Ruby library for Chef, covering its history and technical internals.
Announcing Chef Sugar v1.2.0, a Ruby gem that extends Chef's DSL with new features like attribute namespaces and version constraints.
The Vagrant Berkshelf plugin is being deprecated and seeking a new maintainer, reflecting changes in the Chef tooling ecosystem.
Introduces ChefSpec v3.1.0's new resource coverage reporter for analyzing test coverage of Chef recipes and resources.
Explains the difference between Chef's chef_gem and gem_package resources for installing Ruby gems in system or Chef-specific contexts.
Explains how to modify Chef resource attributes at runtime using the resources method, useful for wrapper cookbook patterns.
Explains advanced patterns for using Berksfile, a Ruby-based dependency manager for Chef cookbooks, to improve flexibility and reduce repetition.
A guide on integrating Berkshelf with Amazon Opsworks' monolithic cookbook repository, including two practical methods and caveats.
Introducing Chef Sugar, a Ruby library that extends Chef with helpful DSL methods and logic to simplify and improve recipe writing.
A guide on migrating Chef cookbooks to individual repositories using Berkshelf for dependency management.
A guide to dynamically add SSH known hosts using a custom Chef LWRP, solving automation issues during server provisioning.
