Chef

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Chef is a configuration management tool designed to bring automation to your entire infrastructure.

This README focuses on developers who want to modify Chef source code. If you just want to use Chef, check out these resources:

• learnchef: Getting started guide
• docs.chef.io: Comprehensive User Docs
• Installer Downloads: Install Chef as a complete package

Installing From Git

NOTE: Unless you have a specific reason to install from source (to try a new feature, contribute a patch, or run chef on an OS for which no package is available), you should head to the installer page to get a prebuilt package.

Prerequisites

Install these via your platform's preferred method (apt, yum, ports, emerge, etc.):

• git
• C compiler, header files, etc. On Ubuntu/Debian, use the build-essential package.
• ruby 2.0.0 or later
• rubygems
• bundler

Chef Installation

Then get the source and install it:

# Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/chef/chef.git

# cd into the source tree
cd chef

# Install dependencies with bundler
bundle install

# Build a gem
bundle exec rake gem

# Install the gem you just built
gem install pkg/chef-VERSION.gem

Contributing/Development

Before working on the code, if you plan to contribute your changes, you need to read the Chef Contributions document.

The general development process is:

1. Fork this repo and clone it to your workstation.
2. Create a feature branch for your change.
3. Write code and tests.
4. Push your feature branch to github and open a pull request against master.

Once your repository is set up, you can start working on the code. We do use TDD with RSpec, so you'll need to get a development environment running. Follow the above procedure ("Installing from Git") to get your local copy of the source running.

Reporting Issues

Issues can be reported by using GitHub Issues.

Full details on how to report issues can be found in the CONTRIBUTING doc.

Note that this repository is primarily for reporting chef-client issues. For reporting issues against other Chef projects, please look up the appropriate repository to report issues against in the Chef docs in the community contributions section. If you can't detemine the appropriate place to report an issue, then please open it against the repository you think best fits and it will be directed to the appropriate project.

Testing

We use RSpec for unit/spec tests. It is not necessary to start the development environment to run the specs--they are completely standalone.

# Run All the Tests
bundle exec rake spec

# Run a Single Test File
bundle exec rspec spec/PATH/TO/FILE_spec.rb

# Run a Subset of Tests
bundle exec rspec spec/PATH/TO/DIR

When you submit a pull request, we will automatically run the functional and unit tests in spec/functional/ and spec/unit/ respectively. These will be run on Ubuntu through Travis CI, and on Windows through AppVeyor. The status of these runs will be displayed with your pull request.

License

Chef - A configuration management system

Author:	Adam Jacob (adam@chef.io)
Copyright:	Copyright 2008-2016, Chef Software, Inc.
License:	Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.