Exploring the Chef Development Kit
The Chef Development Kit, or ChefDK, is the omnibus installer used to set up a Chef development environment on a workstation. It includes the Chef client itself, an early version of the new Chef tool, an embedded version of Ruby, RubyGems, OpenSSL, and command-line utilities such as Knife, Ohai, and Chef Zero. It also includes community tools, such as Test Kitchen, Foodcritic, Berkshelf, Chef Vault, Rubocop, and ChefSpec.
Included in the ChefDK installer is the new Chef command-line tool. It is the new go-to way to generate cookbooks, recipes, templates, custom resources, and more. It also downloads RubyGems for the chef-client environment, and it will verify the ChefDK installation and configuration.
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