This cookbook backports functionality introduced in the latest chef-client releases to any chef-client from 12.1 onwards. This includes Custom Resource functionality, notification improvements, as well as new resources added to core chef. It allows for the usage of these new resources in cookbooks without requiring the very latest Chef client release.
- All platforms supported by Chef
- Chef 12.1+
- none
This repo is not necessarily deprecated, but its use is being discouraged. Based on the policy in RFC-092 we now only support the prior 6 months of chef-client releases in current community cookbooks. So as of Jul 2017 (for example) we only support back to chef-client 12.18.31. Users are expected to track current versions of Chef 12/13 for current community cookbook support and within a 6 month window to migrate to new versions of chef-client. As a result this cookbook is no longer viewed as being particularly necessary (and was always somewhat problematic).
To use this cookbook, put depends 'compat_resource' in the metadata.rb of your cookbook. Once this is done, you can use all the new custom resource features to define resources. It Just Works.
Curious about how to use custom resources? See the Chef custom resource docs.
- Author:: Lamont Granquist ([email protected])
- Author:: John Keiser ([email protected])
Copyright:: 2015-2016 Chef Software, Inc.
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