Ten Quick Tips to Improve Your Chef Workflow
summary
Ten concrete claims and tools: use ChefDK as an all‑in‑one workstation bundle; install Chocolatey, ConEmu and PSReadLine on Windows; put shared test values in spec_helper for Test Kitchen; prefer shell_out/shell_out! and the Chef 12 core DSL over backticks; record screencasts while teaching; use pre‑baked VMs or containers to cut setup time; drop into pry to debug live runs; store ephemeral data in run_state rather than on the server.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:47Use the ChefDK
- 1:17Windows Chef Workstation
- 1:48ServerSpec Helper Files
- 2:18Use MixLib::Shellout
- 2:48Record While You Learn
- 3:18Pre-baked VMs or Containers
- 3:48Troubleshoot with Pry
- 4:18Use run_state to store data
- 4:48Coerce everything instead of checking for nií
- 5:03Pimp My Text Editor
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