chef-node

A simple Chef client for Node.js. Handles the authentication so you can get on with Cheffing.

Works with Cinc Server as well as Chef Server.

Install

npm install chef

Changes in 1.0.0

Starting with major version 1.x, this module has been taken over by Josh Gitlin.

The code has been modernized which has a number of breaking changes: The old request module is no longer used, and the Chef client now uses Promises instead of callbacks. That means that if you were on a 0.x version previously, you will need to re-write your code when moving to 1.0.0 or later.

Previously, client.put, client.get, etc took a callback as the final argument. Now, they return a promise which you can chain on to with client.get(...).then(function (result){ /* callback here */ })

Examples

Add role bar to node foo's run list.

var fs = require('fs'),
    chef = require('chef'),
    key = fs.readFileSync('/path/to/key.file.pem'),
    client = chef.createClient('username', key, 'http://chef.server.com:4000', '12.8.0');

client.get('/nodes/foo').then(node => {
    node.run_list.push('role[bar]');
    client.put('/nodes/foo', node).catch(err => {
        console.error(err);
    });
}).catch(err => { console.error(err); });

Methods

The client object supports delete, get, post and put methods and accepts relative and absolute URLs (so you can use URLs returned in responses.) All methods return a Promise which resolves with the deserialized JSON from the Chef server.

The client object also supports the req method, which supports passing an arbitrary HTTP verb and HTTP connection options. Unlike the methods above, req returns an object containing the deserialized JSON along with the actual req and res objects and associated metadata (in case you need to access the HTTP status code or other underlying properties)

Self Signed Certs

If you need to connect to a chef server with a self signed cert, add the following to the .js file

process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0"

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Sam Gentle, (c) 2022 Josh Gitlin

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