Hello, this is Joseph Holsten & Dan Webb from Sous Chefs. We've had quite a year, so I thought I'd summarize the major moments. Here we go!
2018 was a pretty big year in Sous-Chefs, we started on OpenCollective (opens in a new tab) to raise funds for our core contributors. Many hours go into rewriting, maintaining, and reviewing pull requests. It's a great way to give back to those that empower you and your company!
We moved our cookbook testing from TravisCI to CircleCI accross the board, for reliability and speed reasons. We were one of the first organisatons to adopt Orbs (opens in a new tab). Orbs are a way of reusing commands and more importantly yaml, without losing the expressiveness that comes with CircleCI. Check ours out here (opens in a new tab).
Major/New Releases
Postgresql(opens in a new tab) - This was the biggest release of the year, Completely rewritten with custom resources and a full unit and functional test suite. (@damacus (opens in a new tab)/@martinisoft (opens in a new tab))Redisio(opens in a new tab) - Major release & new maintainers! (@tas50 (opens in a new tab)/@majormoses (opens in a new tab)/@shoekstra (opens in a new tab))vscode(opens in a new tab) - First version of the vscode cookbook (opens in a new tab) was released by (@Xorima (opens in a new tab))sc-chruby(opens in a new tab) Released late in 2018 by @damacus (opens in a new tab)
Adoptions
java(opens in a new tab)php(opens in a new tab)squid(opens in a new tab)stunnel(opens in a new tab)confluence(opens in a new tab)
Looking for an interesting challenge
The following cookbooks are currently underloved, but with a small number of community members. We know they've provided value to poeple in the past, but require some love.
hashicorp-vault(opens in a new tab)consul(opens in a new tab)nexus(opens in a new tab)aptly(opens in a new tab)winrm(opens in a new tab)kismet(opens in a new tab)sensors(opens in a new tab)reprepro(opens in a new tab)
Now included in Chef 14
Both the sysctl and swap cookbooks are now included in Chef 14!
Deprecated cookbooks
We've deprecated the mac_os_x cookbook in favour of the excellently written MacOS cookbook from Microsoft (opens in a new tab).
Chef Compliance (opens in a new tab) was deprecreated as it's encorporated into Chef Automate. Our accompanying cookbook (opens in a new tab) has been deprecated.
Too Many To Note
We've done a lot of releases in the past year, here's an absolutely huge list of all the "minor" releases.
apache2(opens in a new tab)atom(opens in a new tab)control_groups(opens in a new tab)dhcp(opens in a new tab)dnsmasq(opens in a new tab)filesystem(opens in a new tab)gpg(opens in a new tab)grafana(opens in a new tab)haproxy(opens in a new tab)line(opens in a new tab)mariadb(opens in a new tab)sc-mongodb(opens in a new tab)mysql(opens in a new tab)nagios(opens in a new tab)nrpe(opens in a new tab)sc-nxlog(opens in a new tab)ossec(opens in a new tab)openvpn(opens in a new tab)pulledpork(opens in a new tab)ruby_rbenv(opens in a new tab)samba(opens in a new tab)selinux_policy(opens in a new tab)snort(opens in a new tab)unbound(opens in a new tab)unifi(opens in a new tab)vagrant(opens in a new tab)varnish(opens in a new tab)zabbix-agent(opens in a new tab)chef_zfs(opens in a new tab)