Chef Resources and Providers

Abstract:

I spoke a few weeks ago at Chefconf on this subject, and I've made further progress I'd love to share. Specifically, I want to share a presentation with some useful OOP techniques that can be applied to Chef Cookbook development. I would like to discuss how some changes to cookbook design can help with code reuse, flexibility, and testing. I've been working on a cookbook to manage logstash that features these decisions. My intention is that this talk will be a 'take 2' on my chefconf talk with more details and working code.

I plan on using it to demonstrate:

• Instances
• Duck Types
• Sending messages to resources instead of cloning them CHEF-3694
• Automatically generating resources and working with a common provider.

https://github.com/miah/chef_logstash http://www.slideshare.net/rosekolodny/resources-and-providers-chef-conf-2013

Speaker: Miah Johnson