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Chef is a systems integration framework and configuration management library written in Ruby. Chef provides a Ruby library and API that can be used to bring the benefits of configuration management to an entire infrastructure. Chef can be run as a client (chef-client) to a server, or run as a standalone tool (chef-solo). Configuration recipes are written in a pure Ruby DSL.
Buildout is a project designed to solve 2 problems: 1. Application-centric assembly and deployment Assembly runs the gamut from stitching together libraries to create a running program, to production deployment configuration of applications, and associated systems and tools (e.g. run-control scripts, cron jobs, logs, service registration, etc.). Buildout might be confused with build tools like make or ant, but it is a little higher level and might invoke systems like make or ant to get it's work done. Buildout might be confused with systems like puppet or chef, but it is more application focused. Systems like puppet or chef might use buildout to get their work done. Buildout is also somewhat Python-centric, even though it can be used to assemble and deploy non-python applications. It has some special features for assembling Python programs. It's scripted with Python, unlike, say puppet or chef, which are scripted with Ruby. 2. Repeatable assembly of programs from Python software distributions Buildout puts great effort toward making program assembly a highly repeatable process, whether in a very open-ended development mode, where dependency versions aren't locked down, or in a deployment environment where dependency versions are fully specified. You should be able to check buildout into a VCS and later check it out. Two checkouts built at the same time in the same environment should always give the same result, regardless of their history. Among other things, after a buildout, all dependencies should be at the most recent version consistent with any version specifications expressed in the buildout. Buildout supports applications consisting of multiple programs, with different programs in an application free to use different versions of Python distributions. This is in contrast with a Python installation (real or virtual), where, for any given distribution, there can only be one installed. To learn more about buildout, including how to use it, see http://buildout.org/.
Chef Knife Plugin for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Bring some new features of Chef 12.5 to previous 12.X releases.
A class-based config mixin, similar to the one found in Chef.
Ohai detects data about your operating system and prints out a JSON data blob. It can be used standalone, but it's primary purpose is to provide node data to Chef.
RSpec tests for your servers configured by Puppet, Chef or anything else.
A Chef analytics API client with minimal dependencies.
A tiny Chef API client with minimal dependencies.