A repository which contains cookbooks, roles and other chef artifacts which I am using to manage my personal workstations and servers using Chef running in 'local mode'.

Bootstrapping

• Install Chef using install script from Get Chef, or MSI installer for Windows
• Install a git client
• Clone repository
• Execute run-chef.sh (chmod 755 first) or run-chef.bat
• **Note: You need a node.json in nodes/ that matches the hostname of the given machine

Workflow

• Make changes to cookbooks, recipes, roles, nodes locally
• Test locally
• Commit and Push
• **Note: Chef local mode will update your node.json file as if it the node was registered on a Chef server. You'll want to clean that out before committing.

Tools

• Sublime: A Sublime project was created for use with this Chef Repository. https://github.com/cabeca/SublimeChef is a nice add-on you can optionally add.