Chef Infra

chef

A powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code, automating how it is configured, deployed and managed.

Runs as chef, knife, chef-client, chef-solo, chef-apply|macOS, Linux, Windows|www.chef.io

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Generate a new cookbook with chef generate cookbook. Other generators, knife and chef-client are not covered.

Opens the form; the finished command lands at your prompt, unrun

Run in Otty

otty gui chef

`chef generate cookbook`

Generate a cookbook

Generate a cookbookExample values, fixed in this page — nothing here reaches a terminal

Basic

Cookbook name or path*

string

ChefSpec samples

--specs

TasksEach one presets the form for one job

New cookbook

namespecs

ParametersOnly these flags are editable in the form

Cookbook name or path

string · positional 0

Berkshelf

Use Berkshelf dependency resolution.
boolean

--berks-b

Policyfile

Use Policyfile dependency resolution (the default).
boolean

--policy-P

Test Kitchen configuration

enum

--kitchendokkenvagrant

ChefSpec samples

boolean

--specs-s

YAML recipe

Use a YAML recipe configuration file as the default.
boolean

--yaml-y

Verbose

boolean

--verbose-V

SourcesEvery flag above is checked against these

src

banner "Usage: #{ChefCLI::Dist::EXEC} generate cookbook NAME [options]" short: "-b", long: "--berks", description: "Generate cookbooks using Berkshelf dependency resolution.", long: "--kitchen CONFIGURATION", description: "Generate cookbooks with a specific Test Kitchen configuration (dokken|vagrant) - defaults to vagrant", short:…

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