…Ian has some great improvements to the knife bootstrap command and cleanup of the Web UI's internals which you'll see in the next Chef release. Thanks for all the hard work, Ian.
To everyone who contributed their time reporting bugs, submitting patches, and helping each other on the mailing list and IRC : thanks for making Chef awesome!
Release Notes - Chef - Version 0.9.2
Bug
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…around was Joe Williams, who found and fixed an issue showing nodes in the Web UI using the release candidate. Thanks for testing and for the patch, Joe.
Renaud Chaput, our 0.8.14 MVP , fixed a bug with knife where we had added the -f switch to set the output format, but this switch was already used to direct output to a file. The -F switch will now be used to define the output format.
Matthew Kent, who's responsible for making Chef a snap to install on Red Hat…
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…to configure themselves. It also provides a REST API and an interactive Web UI, so you can easily alter the configuration of your systems centrally. Finally, all the data the server collects is indexed and searchable - you can then use this in your recipes to configure services that require complex, dynamic configuration. (Some examples would be dynamically discovering a master MySQL server, or finding all the memcached servers in a cluster)
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…0.8.14. Akzhan Abdulin is your MVP for fixing a bug in cookbook display in the Web UI. Thanks, Akzhan! Honorable mention goes to Pierre Riteau for spotting a bug in setting file modes, ownership, and group ownership on files rendered from template, and tracking it down to the root cause.
Also in this release, we've fixed a bug where IRB would try to parse shef's command line options, and made rspec and cucumber optional when installing chef from source. It should be much …
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When RabbitMQ is down during the creation of the initial Validation and Web UI keys, we now re-generate them once it is available.
Array's that contain hashes are now indexed properly.
I want to give a quick special thanks to the ton of people who have been helping the entire Chef community get up to speed on the changes in 0.8: by writing documentation, answering questions on the mailing list, and helping people in real-time in IRC . I'm proud to be around each and every …
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To prove it, we made the Web UI utilize the REST API exclusively.
Knife , the command line utility originally written by Josh Sierles of 37signals, has been embraced and expanded to cover every API end-point of the Chef server (and a whole lot more - like search-driven parallel SSH ). Managing your infrastructure from vi and emacs has never been this easy.
We have replaced OpenID as the Chef Server Authentication mechanism with per-request digital signatures …
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