Using chef-shell
Writing cookbooks is hard. Being able to try out parts of a recipe interactively and using breakpoints really helps to understand how your recipes work.
Chef comes with chef-shell, which is essentially an interactive Ruby session with Chef. In chef-shell, you can create attributes, write recipes, and initialize Chef runs, among other things. Chef-shell allows you to evaluate parts of your recipes on the fly before uploading them to your Chef server and executeing complete cookbooks on your nodes.
How to do it...
Running chef-shell is straightforward.
- Start chef-shell in standalone mode:
mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ chef-shell loading configuration: none (standalone chef-shell session) Session type: standalone Loading......done. This is ...
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