Helps build cookbooks faster by pre-templating parts and exposing options in a command line and config friendly way.
Generates or updates an existing cookbook by rendering a given stencil_set followed by options.
Ex:
fastfood gen -c /home/me/cookbooks/mycookbook redis name:redis_recipe
Creates a new cookbook using a given templatepacks base files.
Ex:
fastfood new mycookbook
Generates a new cookbook or updates an existing cookbook from a fastfood.json file.
Example Template:
{
"name": "mycookbook",
"stencils": [
{
"stencil_set": "rabbitmq",
"openfor": "myapp"
},
{
"stencil_set": "rails",
"stencil": "nginx",
"name": "myapp",
"tag": "myapp"
}
]
}Ex:
fastfood build fastfood.json
Fastfood uses the Jinja2 templating engine with 2 modifications.
There is a helper method added to jinja2 for fastfood called qstring, it takes in an argument and if that argument does not match a Chef node attributes (node['mysomething'] | node.chef_environment) it will wrap that argument in a string otherwise it just returns the argument.
qstring("node['mysomething']")
renders as
node['mysomething']and
qstring("mynonchefstr")
renders as
"mynonchefstr"
Because the traditional jinja2 variable start and end strings can conflict with Ruby code fastfood uses '|{' and '}|' to represent a jinja2 variable.
|{ options['name'] }|