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Chef 13 Upgrade: knife-cookbook-doc gem upgrade (1 mins read).

Fixing odd Logger entries in autogenerated knife-cookbook-doc README.mds for Chef 13.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef #knife-cookbook-doc #chef-13 #documentation.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Deprecation of Namespace Collisions in Custom Resources (1 mins read).

Preparing for breaking changes in Chef 14 by renaming property_name to new_resource.property_name in Custom Resources.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-deprecation #chef #chef-13 #chef-14.

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Testing Chef's ruby_blocks with ChefSpec (3 mins read).

Testing implementation of a ruby_block in ChefSpec, to ensure that the code executes as expected.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:01 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefspec #testing.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Lessons Learnt and Documented for Posterity (1 mins read).

Notes on the main problems encountered when upgrading from Chef 12 to Chef 13, both with ChefSpec and Rubocop.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop #chef-13-upgrade-chefspec #chef #rubocop #chefspec #chef-13 #chefspec-7 #rubocop-0-49.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for lazy Parameters (1 mins read).

How to resolve the Parenthesize the param lazy Rubocop error when upgrading your cookbook to Chef 13.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop #chef #rubocop #chef-13 #rubocop-0-49.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for Testing render_file with ChefSpec and a with_content Block (1 mins read).

How to resolve the Parenthesize the param render_file Rubocop error when upgrading your cookbook to Chef 13.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-chefspec #chef #chefspec.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for Word Array Literals (%w) (1 mins read).

A one-liner shell command to fix Rubocop errors %w-literals should be delimited by [ and ].

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop #chef #rubocop #chef-13 #rubocop-0-49.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: Testing ruby_blocks with ChefSpec (1 mins read).

Replace your block.old_run_action with block.block.call to trigger ruby_blocks within ChefSpec 7 and Chef 13.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-chefspec #chef #chefspec #chef-13 #chefspec-7.

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SSLError When Running Berkshelf Behind a Proxy (2 mins read).

Getting around the pesky OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError SSLv2/v3 read server hello A error when running Berkshelf behind a proxy.

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:44 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #blogumentation #proxy #command-line #shell #chefdk #berkshelf.

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Running service resources in Kitchen-Docker (3 mins read).

How to get up and running with service resources when running Test Kitchen with the Docker driver, in this example for use with GitLab CI.

Sun, 03 Sep 2017 20:23 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #kitchen #docker #howto.

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Trusting Self-Signed Certificates from the Chef Development Kit (2 mins read).

How to get the ChefDK (and associated tools) to trust internal / self-signed certificates, in an easy oneliner.

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:10 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefdk #certificates #berkshelf.

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Getting around Permission Denied when running ChefSpec (3 mins read).

How to handle getting an EACCES when trying to run ChefSpec on a recipe.

Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:23 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefspec #chefdk.

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Testing include_recipes with Chef and ChefSpec (2 mins read).

How to best test include_recipes within your Chef recipes, as well as how to ensure that you aren't running any dependent recipes in your tests.

Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:35 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #tdd #chefspec.

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Building Chef Cookbooks with GitLab (Part 1) (12 mins read).

An introduction to how to build a cookbook using GitLab's Continuous Integration platform in conjunction with kitchen-docker.

Thu, 25 May 2017 11:51 by Jamie Tanna . #guide #howto #blogumentation #gitlab #chef #test-kitchen #docker #gitlab-ci.