Episode 10: TESTALLTHETHINGS, Testing Infrastructure With Jim Hopp, Stephen Nelson-Smith, and Andrew Crump

In the News

• Carlos Sanchez recently wrote a blog post titled Learning Puppet or Chef? Check out Vagrant! it starts off with a very simple idea “If you are starting to use Puppet or Chef, you must have Vagrant.” From there, it provides a quick intro to getting started with Vagrant.
• Huang Liang added a wiki to github that describes a process for using toft and cucumber to test Chef cookbooks
• …and now for a bit of shamless self-promotion… RailsConf 2012 was held last week in Austin. Many of the talks included information on how people are running their Rails apps in production. Nathen Harvey gave a talk about How Operations Enables Developer Productivity. Slides are available on Speaker Deck and videos of this and all other RailsConf presentations will be available soon.

Events

• ChefConf get your tickets before the event sells out! The countdown to ChefConf has begun. Be sure to follow @chefconf on twitter for all the latest updates and announcements.
• Pre-ChefConf Hacknight will be held at the MoPub headquarters in San Franciso starting at 8:00 PM on Monday night.
• There will be a Chefconf Pre-event Hack day on Tuesday, May 15 from 1:00 - 7:00 PM at the location of Chefconf.

Cookbook Updates

liquibase v0.0.1 - reset

• Jamie Winsor
• Installs and configures Liquibase on Redhad flavored distros.
• Liquibase is an open source, database-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database changes.
• It is built on a simple premise: All database changes are stored in a human readable yet trackable form and checked into source control.
• http://www.liquibase.org/

rbenv v1.3.1 - reset

• Jamin Winsor with help from Wes Morgan
• Installs and configures rbenv
• add support for a rbenv_ruby global attribute
• install libreadline-dev in Ubuntu & Debian so irb will work

geminabox v0.1.0 - chrisroberts

• Chris Roberts
• Installs and configures Geminabox
• https://github.com/chrisroberts/cookbook-geminabox

sortable_mash v0.0.1 - chrisroberts

• This cookbook provides a #sorted_hash method to Mash instances. In many situations a configuration file is generated via JSON.pretty_generate or some other method using a Hash. The #sorted_hash option ensures that hashes are in a consistent order so file contents are changed simply due to value reordering.

network_interfaces v0.0.1 - guilhemfr

• Guilhem Lettron
• Manage /etc/network/interfaces on debian / Ubuntu

kvm v0.1.0 - guilhemfr

• Guilhem Lettron
• Install KVM Hypervisor on Ubuntu and Debian

modules v0.1.0 - guilhemfr

• Guilhem Lettron
• Manage linux modules with /etc/modules and modprobe

bonita v0.1.0 - peter_donald

• Peter Donald
• Installs/Configures the Bonita, an open source BPM server

xymon v0.1.0 - peter_donald

• Peter Donald
• Installs/Configures Xymon monitoring infrastructure
• Xymon is a monitoring project inspired by the Big Brother monitoring system.

authbind v0.1.1 - peter_donald

• Peter Donald
• Installs/Configures authbind and defines resources for managing authorization

extended_drbd v0.0.1 - jwitrick

• Justin Witrick
• This cookbook is designed to setup and configure a pair of servers with drbd.
• DRBD® refers to block devices designed as a building block to form high availability (HA) clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via an assigned network. DRBD can be understood as network based raid-1.
• http://www.drbd.org/

catalyst v0.0.5 - melezhik

• Alex Melezhik
• catalyst application resource provider (LWRP)
• Support for debian platrform

redisio v1.0.2 - geekbri

• Brian Bianco
• Installs/Configures redis

user v0.2.10 - fnichol

• Fletcher Nichol has released some bug fixes and improvements to the user cookbook
• A convenient Chef LWRP to manage user accounts and SSH keys (this is not the opscode users cookbook)

discovery v0.0.7 - fujin

• AJ Christensen
• Installs/Configures the discovery library

postgresql91 v0.99.6 - scottmlikens

• Scott Likens
• Installs and configures postgresql for clients or servers

Mentioned last week

mosh v0.3.0 - jtimberman

• Installs/Configures mosh

bag_config v2.0.1 - chrisroberts

• Provides helpers for optional data bag configuration

campfire v0.0.4 - cwjohnston

• LWRP for sending messages to Campfire rooms
• Rewrite to use Broach gem in lieu of Tinder, as Tinder’s dependency on ActiveSupport has negative consequences for Chef.

gdash v0.0.2 - sme

• Installs/Configures gdash and provides helpful resources for graph and dashboard creation

Opscode Cookbook Releases

apache2 v1.1.8 - opscode

• Installs and configures all aspects of apache2 using Debian style symlinks with helper definitions
• Some platforms with minimal installations that don’t have perl won’t have a node['languages']['perl'] attribute, so remove the conditional and rely on the power of idempotence in the package resource.
• COOK-1214 - address foodcritic warnings
• COOK-1180 - add mod_logio and fix mod_proxy

ntp v1.1.8 - opscode

• Installs and configures ntp as a client or server
• COOK-1158 - RHEL family >= 6 has ntpdate package

nginx v0.101.2 - opscode

• Installs and configures nginx
• COOK-1211 - include the default attributes explicitly so version is available.

rsyslog v1.1.0 - opscode

• Installs and configures rsyslog
• Changes from COOK-1167:
  • More versatile server discovery - use the IP as an attribute, or use search (see README)
  • Removed cron dependency.
  • Removed log archival; logrotate is recommended.
  • Add an attribute to select the per-host directory in the log dir
  • Works with Chef Solo now.
  • Set debian/ubuntu default user and group. Drop privileges to syslog.adm.

postfix v1.2.0 - opscode

• Installs and configures postfix for client or outbound relayhost, or to do SASL auth
• COOK-880 - add client/server roles for search-based discovery of relayhost

powershell v1.0.6 - opscode

• Installs/Configures PowerShell 2.0 on the Windows platform
• Refactor the powershell resource from a core-Chef monkey-patch into a proper LWRP.
• Take advantage of native Win32 support for cwd and environment in Chef 0.10.8+.
• COOK-630 force powershell scripts to terminate immediately and return an error code on failure
• ensure more sane default options are set on PowerShell process

apt v1.4.2 - opscode

• Configures apt and apt services and LWRPs for managing apt repositories and preferences
• COOK-1155 - LWRP for apt pinning

resolver v1.0.2 - opscode

• Configures /etc/resolv.conf via attributes
• ‘node’ went missing in the template.

Reminders and announcements