Chapter 2. Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." | ||
| --Henry Ford | ||
In this chapter, we'll cover the following recipes:
- Testing your Chef cookbooks
- Flagging problems in your Chef cookbooks
- Test-driven development for cookbooks using ChefSpec
- Integration testing your Chef cookbooks with Test Kitchen
- Showing affected nodes before uploading cookbooks
- Overriding a node's run list to execute a single recipe
- Using why-run mode to find out what a recipe might do
- Debugging Chef client runs
- Inspecting the results of your last Chef run
- Raising and logging exceptions in recipes
- Diff-ing cookbooks with knife
- Using community exception and report handlers
- Creating custom ...
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