fastfood (Deprecated and No longer maintained)

Helps build cookbooks faster by pre-templating parts and exposing options in a command line and config friendly way.

Installation

The latest release of fastfood can be installed via pip:

pip install fastfood

An alternative install method would be manually installing it leveraging setup.py:

git clone https://github.com/rackerlabs/fastfood
cd fastfood
python setup.py install

Command Line Usage

list

Shows a list of available stencils in your template pack.

Example:

$ fastfood list
Available Stencil Sets:
       varnish - Creates a recipe for installing Varnish
      ha-redis - Creates a highly available Redis and HAProxy recipe
          java - Installs Java JRE

show

Shows more information about a stencil, including available options.

$ fastfood show nginx
Stencil Set nginx:
  Stencils:
    nginx
  Options:
    name - Name of the recipe to create
    example - Various premade Nginx examples

build

Generates a new cookbook or updates an existing cookbook from a fastfood.json file.

Example Template:

{
  "name": "mycookbook",
  "stencils": [
    {
      "stencil_set": "base"
    },
    {
      "stencil_set": "rabbitmq",
      "openfor": "myapp"
    },
    {
      "stencil_set": "rails",
      "stencil": "nginx",
      "name": "myapp",
      "tag": "myapp"
    }
  ]
}

Ex:

fastfood build fastfood.json

Template Notes

Fastfood uses the Jinja2 templating engine with 2 modifications.

qstring()

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"

jinja variable

Because the traditional jinja2 variable start and end strings can conflict with Ruby code fastfood uses '|{' and '}|' to represent a jinja2 variable.

|{ options['name'] }|