Nice Chef Formatter

[] Formatter for chef with execution times for every cookbook/recipe and simplified output.

Color codes:

• Green, resource had nothing to do. It was already applied
• Yellow, resource has done work. Applied
• Blue, resource was skipped due to conditional (only_if, not_if, ...)

Usage

Install the gem:

gem install nice-chef-formatter

If you are using Omnibus Chef you need to specify the full path to the gem binary:

/opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install nice-chef-formatter

Or write a cookbook to install it using the chef_gem resource, if that's how you roll.

Then add the following to your /etc/chef/client.rb file:

gem 'nice-chef-formatter'
require 'nice-chef-formatter'

This enables the formatter, but doesn't use it by default.

Acknowledgements

• Andrea Campi (@andreacampi) for the nyan-cat-chef-formatter that was the original inspiration

License and Authors

Author:: Nadir Lloret (nadir.lloret@gmail.com) License:: Apache 2.0