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Finally got around to writing up the work that I did at Capital One on our #Chef pipelines which I was very proud of.

It's a bit of a long read, but details some pretty impactful changes made over several months of solo work - between games of Apex Legends - and hopefully is transferrable to other folks.

TL;DR is listen to what your users want, instead of telling them to use a thing they don't particularly like but have no choice in

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:33 by Jamie Tanna . #chef.

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What I learned rebuilding our CI/CD pipelines for Chef Cookbooks (22 mins read).

How a focus on developer experience and user needs helped us rebuild (Capital One's) CI/CD pipelines for Chef cookbooks the right way.

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:30 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #capital-one #jenkins #job-dsl #developer-experience.

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Updating the CA Certificate bundle in Chef Installations (3 mins read).

How to update/add new certificates to the Certificate Authority Certificate Bundle in a Chef Development Kit / Workstation installation.

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:59 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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Here's a little Cookstyle/ChefSpec tip for y'all #chef #cookstyle
Dan Webb 💉💉 (@dan_webb)Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:41 GMT

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:46 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #chefspec #cookstyle.

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Debugging Chef Variables With Logs (3 mins read).

How you can use different means of logging to make operations with Chef cookbook a little easier.

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:01 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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Converting a Kitchen YAML to Chef Attributes (2 mins read).

How to convert attributes being set for your Chef Test Kitchen integration tests to an attributes.rb format.

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:40 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #test-kitchen.

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[Chef Infra Webinar] Join our webinar Chef Workstation: One Click a Way from Everything on July 29 to learn about Chef Workstation, the replacement for Chef DK. Join @dan_webb, Senior Developer Advocate to learn what’s new with Chef Workstation: prgress.co/3hOvY1d
Chef (@chef)Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:08 +0000

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:09 by Jamie Tanna . #chef.

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Programatically Comparing Versions Using Chef's Versioning Schemes (1 mins read).

How to use Chef's versioning classes to determine whether a version constraint is matched.

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:48 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #ruby.

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Uploading Community Cookbooks from Supermarket to Chef Server (1 mins read).

How to upload a given community cookbook from Chef Supermarket to Chef Server, using Berkshelf.

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:02 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #berkshelf.

Liked http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/using-git-to-version-stamp-chef-artifacts .

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:16 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #versioning #berkshelf.

Liked http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/chef-cookbook-dependency-management-and-the-environment-cookbook-pattern .

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:04 by Jamie Tanna . #chef.

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Constructing an Ordered Dependency Graph for Chef Cookbooks, using Berkshelf (3 mins read).

How to create a dependency graph for a given cookbook's dependencies to understand the order to install them in.

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:51 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #berkshelf #ruby.

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Hey #ChefFriends how do you generally manage syncing a cookbook between Supermarket and #Chef Server? Wondered if there's anything currently out there to pull the cookbook and it's dependencies, in the right order to Server?

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:30 by Jamie Tanna . #chef-friends #chef.

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Using Dynamically Generated Non-AWS Owned SSH Keys with Test Kitchen on EC2 (3 mins read).

How to set up kitchen-ec2 to use an SSH key that isn't available in AWS by amending the user-data of the created EC2 instance.

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:21 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #test-kitchen #aws #ssh.

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Waiting for SSH service on Test Kitchen with the Docker driver (1 mins read).

How to resolve Waiting for SSH service when running kitchen-docker.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 17:09 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #test-kitchen #docker.

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Better Chef Reporting for Automated Pipelines (1 mins read).

How to get better machine-parseable reports for your Chef Pipelines.

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:39 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #jenkins #test-kitchen #rubocop #cookstyle #rspec.

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Managing Your Chef Gem Dependencies More Easily in your Gemfile (2 mins read).

How to source your Chef Gem dependencies from your Chef cookbook's metadata.rb instead of duplicating them between files.

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:42 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #ruby.

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Programatically Determining the Version of a Chef Cookbook (1 mins read).

How to determine a Chef cookbook's version programatically, using Ruby.

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:04 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #ruby.

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How to Use Cookstyle to Autocorrect Style Issues (1 mins read).

How to use the cookstyle tool with Chef cookbooks to autocorrect style issues.

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 12:41 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #ruby #chefdk #chef-workstation #cookstyle.

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Well it's taken me a few years, but I've finally worked out how to manage Gems in #Chef without horrible chef exec bundle exec ... commands https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/02/22/chefdk-gemfile/

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:54 by Jamie Tanna . #chef.

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Installing Gems From Your Gemfile When Developing Chef Cookbooks using the ChefDK / Chef Workstation (2 mins read).

How to install Ruby Gems in local development using your Gemfile.

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:51 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #ruby #chefdk #chef-workstation.

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I'm touching Chef for the first time today and "data bags" wins grossest software phrase award
mechanical turkey (@alicegoldfuss)Fri, 06 Nov 2020 21:01 GMT

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 21:36 by Jamie Tanna . #chef.

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In case you aren't aware, there are a bunch of soon to be ex-Chef employees due to lack of understanding of what makes the Chef ecosystem/product. If you have openings, please share to #ChefFriends.
Jennifer Davis (@sigje)Wed, 07 Oct 2020 02:33 +0000

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:36 by Jamie Tanna . #chef.

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Hey everyone at Chef who got fucked today by your new corporate overlords: I'm here to help. Happy to do coding screens with you, refer you for jobs, etc.
Philip J. Hollenback (@philiph)Tue, 06 Oct 2020 20:59 +0000

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 08:16 by Jamie Tanna . #chef.

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Wow. Well. Do we want to call it? Today is officially the end of Chef. It sucks. I really loved that community. I met so many amazing people and made great friends. I'm very sad its over. I'm still saddened by my experience. I don't know what to say.
Miah Johnson (@miah_)Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:03 +0000

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 08:16 by Jamie Tanna . #chef.

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September 8th, 2020: "Progress offered a better path to future growth, while sending a message to the open-source community and customers that Progress would be a good steward of the startup’s vision." October 6th, 2020: .... #cheffriends #devops #chef
James “Patrick March” Cuff 👻 (@HPC_James)Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:47 +0000

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 19:03 by Jamie Tanna . #chef.

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I'm pretty stoked for this one: The first PR opened by a GitHub App that can be added to your org to automatically autocorrect all your Chef Infra code with each new Cookstyle release. Huge shout out to Xorima for proving the power of the concept:
Tim Smith (@tas50)Tue, 01 Sep 2020 05:55 +0000

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:44 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #rubocop.

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ChefConf 2019 staff shirt.
Socially Distant DevOps (@lnxchk)Thu, 07 May 2020 13:10 +0000

Thu, 07 May 2020 14:50 by Jamie Tanna . #chef.

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Gotcha: AWS SDK Proxy Setup with Test Kitchen (2 mins read).

How to avoid odd proxy issues when using the AWS SDK, when using Test Kitchen.

Wed, 06 May 2020 14:42 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #test-kitchen #proxy.

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Using Chef to Delete Files that aren't in a List (2 mins read).

How to delete files in a directory that don't match a list.

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:10 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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ChefSpec Gotcha: Using render_file When Deleting Files (2 mins read).

How to use render_file with ChefSpec when you're deleting the file.

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:44 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefspec.

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Chef Attributes and default.rb - it's in the name (3 mins read).

Why you should only be setting defaults in your Chef attributes, and moving heavy lifting elsewhere.

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:49 by Jamie Tanna . #nablopomo #chef #chefspec.

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Bookmarked https://blog.chef.io/goodbye-foodcritic/ .

Recommended read: Goodbye, Foodcritic https://blog.chef.io/goodbye-foodcritic/

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:36 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #foodcritic.

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Setting up a custom RubyGems Repository for Chef in Test Kitchen (1 mins read).

How to use a private RubyGems repository for your Chef gem dependencies in Test Kitchen.

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:33 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #blogumentation #test-kitchen.

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How Many Gadgets Does the Kitchen Need?! The Many Tools for Chef Dependency Management (5 mins read).

Looking at the different dependency management solutions of Chef, and how, where and why you would use each one.

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 14:59 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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Performing a No-Op with chef-client using JSON (2 mins read).

How to perform a chef-client run without executing anything.

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:33 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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How to run tests from the ChefDK in Docker (6 mins read).

How to get up and running with the ChefDK to perform common tests, such as unit tests and linting.

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 23:07 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefdk #docker.

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Using Fake Cookbooks for Writing ChefSpec Tests for your Custom Chef Resources (3 mins read).

A directory structure I've found quite useful for writing ChefSpec tests for custom resources, by creating a fake cookbook within the cookbook you're testing.

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:18 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #custom-resource #chefspec.

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Chef 14 Upgrade: Change in ValidationFailed error messages when setting required properties (2 mins read).

The updated error message returned by a Chef ValidationFailed error, when you're specifying which properties are required on a custom resource.

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:35 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-14-upgrade #chef #chefspec #chef-14.

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Revert 'Some knowledge-sharing news' (5 mins read).

The unfortunate decision to cancel my Packt training courses.

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:40 by Jamie Tanna . #news #events #chef #testing #tdd.

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Test-Driven Chef Cookbook Development Using ChefSpec (and a sprinkling of InSpec) (39 mins read).

Using the example of deploying and running a Java JAR file as a way to show the lifecycle of a fully test-driven Chef cookbook.

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 14:52 by Jamie Tanna . #howto #blogumentation #chef #test-kitchen #chefspec #tdd #testing #guide.

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Using chef-shell to interactively debug attributes and recipes (5 mins read).

How to use chef-shell to see attribute config and recipes, with and without a Chef Server.

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:38 by Jamie Tanna . #chef #chef-shell #blogumentation #test-kitchen #chef-server #chefdk.

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OggCamp 2018 (21 mins read).

A look at my time at OggCamp 2018, the talks I presented and attended.

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:18 by Jamie Tanna . #events #oggcamp #chef #public-speaking #openapi #swagger #free-software #open-source #collaborative-culture.

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Some exciting job and knowledge-sharing news (4 mins read).

Moving into Quality Engineering, publishing Chef training courses, conference speaking about Chef at OggCamp and the complex mess that is this very static website at DevOpsDays London.

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 22:24 by Jamie Tanna . #news #capital-one #events #chef #testing #conference #job #tdd #oggcamp #devopsdays.

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Notes from the AWS + Chef Dev Day Roadshow in London (13 mins read).

Notes from the AWS Dev Day Roadshow in London, where we got to play around with Chef, Chef Automate and InSpec using AWS OpsWorks.

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 22:25 by Jamie Tanna . #aws #chef #events #chef-server #opsworks #cloud-formation #cloud-custodian #deployment #containers #chef-automate #inspec.

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Beware: deleteing a file in Chef doesn't actually delete it (3 mins read).

Why you should explicitly add backup false when deleteing a file through Chef, to avoid leaving potentially sensitive files still on the box.

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:54 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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Morsels of Goodness: What's Cooking in Chef 14? (5 mins read).

A look at the new features coming in the new Chef 14 release, as well as what to watch out for when upgrading.

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:09 by Jamie Tanna . #chef-14 #chef #foodcritic #cookstyle #rubocop #ruby #test-kitchen.

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Bundling Common Rake Tasks into a Gem (8 mins read).

An example of how to create a helper gem for common Rake task, using the real-world example of Chef cookbooks.

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:17 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefdk #gem #ruby #rake #foodcritic #rubocop #rspec #knife-cookbook-doc #gitlab-ci.

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Running docker login as another user in Chef (2 mins read).

Hitting the error permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket when trying to run docker login as a non-root user in Chef.

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:14 by Jamie Tanna . #docker #chef #blogumentation.

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Chef 13 Upgrade: knife-cookbook-doc Rubocop Updates (1 mins read).

Disabling the Missing space after # and Do not use block comments errors for your knife-cookbook-doc formatted comments.

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:30 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef #knife-cookbook-doc #chef-13 #documentation #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop.

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