Analyze Pilot Release Notes

Chef Workstation v0.13.35

https://downloads.chef.io/chef-workstation/0.13.35

New Features

• Released the chef analyze tool which includes chef analyze upload and chef analyze report.
• chef analyze upload allows users to upload documents to a secure repo for Chef Software to examine. Reports and error logs are a perfect example of what to upload. Your Chef Software contact can help you determine what to upload.
• chef analyze report nodes and chef analyze report cookbooks generate reports based on a Chef Infra Server instance.
  • These reports depend on connection information to the Chef Infra Server. The easiest way is to specify these in a $HOME/.chef/credentials file like the following:

  [default]
  client_name     = 'cmyclient'
  # client_key must be a fully specified path
  client_key      = '/Users/myuser/.chef/chef-workstation.pem'
  chef_server_url = 'https://my.chef.server/organizations/myorg'
  

  • If your chef server uses a self-signed or untrusted certificate you can specify --ssl-no-verify to allow connections.
  • Once the command completes, a detailed version of the report generated on stdout will be stored to ~/.chef-workstation. A message at the end of the report will give a direct link. Any errors encountered will also be stored in that folder and will be linked.
  • To generate a csv formatted report specify --format csv.
  • chef analyze report cookbooks can also run Cookstyle against cookbooks and detail the errors it finds that would prevent upgrading Chef Infra Client on nodes. Specify --verify-upgrade to run Cookstyle. This is disabled by default because it makes the reporting process take longer.

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Known Issues