chef/chef-cli

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The 'chef' command line tool included in Chef Workstation

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Forks: 23
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 47
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Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: Ruby
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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47 open issues indexed

`chef generate generator` flow is quite broken Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#262 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 4, 2025
Relax constraint on diff-lcs < 1.4 Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/chef-cli#259 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 24, 2025
The same version of a cookbook generates different identifier and dotted_decimal_identifier depending on Operating System Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#240 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 20, 2024
Minitar v1 has been released Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

chef/chef-cli#235 · Opened Aug 9, 2024
`chef shell-init` emits warnings Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/chef-cli#219 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 14, 2023
Chef cert being stored in the windows OS cert store issue. Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#218 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 14, 2023
chef-cli cannot update policyfile when the path contains spaces Open

Triage: Not Reproducible Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/chef-cli#214 · Opened Aug 17, 2022
Policyfile.lock.json differs for same Policyfile.rb intermittently Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#192 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2021
Chef Generate ignores config.rb options placed in credentials file Open

Triage: Confirmed Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/chef-cli#190 · Opened Sep 9, 2021
Support path in git and github sources for cookbook in Policyfile.rb Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#191 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 3, 2021
When running chef generate w/o git being setup everything blows up Open

Triage: Confirmed Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

chef/chef-cli#184 · Opened Aug 23, 2021
Fix CLI help for chef shell-init Open

Triage: Confirmed Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#158 · Opened Mar 12, 2021
chef install ignores chef_server source Open

Status: Waiting on Contributor

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#152 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2020
`chef export -a` truncates binary files when running from windows Open

Aspect: Stability Triage: Confirmed Triage: Needs Information Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#110 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2020
cookbook generator converge fails when run from the same parent directory as new cookbook Open

Triage: Confirmed Type: Bug

chef/chef-cli#61 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 3, 2020
Failure running `chef update` exit code 255 Open

Priority: Critical Triage: Confirmed Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-cli#58 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 29, 2020
Handle cookbook_version being Nil Open

Triage: Needs Information Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#55 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 7, 2020
Allow Configurable Option to Change Default Cookbook Generation policy_mode Open

Aspect: UX Triage: Confirmed Triage: Feature Request Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#43 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 4, 2019
Generated cookbook generators produce errors when used. Open

Status: Help Wanted Triage: Confirmed Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#22 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2019
Parallel policy dependencies fail with frozen cookbook error Open

Triage: Confirmed Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

chef/chef-cli#31 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 19, 2019
Warn about unreachable cookbooks in Policyfile Open

Aspect: Packaging Triage: Confirmed Triage: Feature Request Type: Design Proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#32 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 26, 2019
chef push with a ruby syntax error isn't helpful Open

Triage: Confirmed Triage: Needs Information

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

chef/chef-cli#37 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2018
When using include_policy with no run_list, 'run_list cannot be empty' emitted Open

Triage: Confirmed Triage: Needs Information Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/chef-cli#39 · 4 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Jul 3, 2018
Add support for URL as a generator cookbooks parameter to the chef generate commands Open

Aspect: UX Triage: Confirmed Triage: Feature Request Type: Design Proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#40 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 1, 2018
NoMethodError when parallel push of policyfile Open

Triage: Needs Information Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-cli#41 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2018
multiple default_sources should have a configurable priority for automatic preferred_for behavior Open

Aspect: UX Triage: Confirmed Triage: Feature Request Type: Design Proposal Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-cli#42 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 15, 2018
How to add additional "generator" commands? Open

Aspect: UX documentation Triage: Confirmed Triage: Feature Request Triage: Needs Information Type: Design Proposal Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#44 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 5, 2017
Improve error message when cookbook is not in policy file set Open

Status: Waiting on Contributor Triage: Needs Information

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/chef-cli#100 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 5, 2017
Add `chef outdated` to audit Policyfile.lock.json for outdated cookbooks Open

Status: Waiting on Contributor

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#82 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 1, 2017
chef install should warn users if local cookbook isn't used Open

Aspect: UX

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

chef/chef-cli#83 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 1, 2017
Feature request: ability to use non-"local" policy_group when exporting policies Open

Status: Help Wanted Triage: Feature Request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#94 · 4 comments · 9 reactions · Opened May 30, 2017
"chef update" checks out a non-existent branch from a git repo Open

Status: Incomplete Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#86 · 1 comment · Opened May 17, 2017
chef install Policyfile.rb cannot resolve cookbook-specific source of supermarket Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#84 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2017
The generator prints out unwanted text and there's no way to change it Open

Status: Help Wanted Triage: Confirmed Type: Enhancement

chef/chef-cli#87 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 16, 2016
FEATURE: `chef generate generator .` should update existing code_generator cookbook Open

Status: Help Wanted Triage: Feature Request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#95 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 2, 2016
Chef shell-init command on windows is having encoding issues and corrupting the $profile Open

Status: Incomplete

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

chef/chef-cli#88 · 1 comment · Opened May 19, 2016
New Policyfile.lock.json generated during `chef push` Open

Status: Incomplete Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#85 · 29 comments · 8 reactions · Opened May 11, 2016
Document chefdk.* settings Open

Aspect: UX documentation Triage: Confirmed Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-cli#54 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 12, 2016
Consider automatically adding cookbook in pwd if ./metadata.rb exists Open

Status: Help Wanted Triage: Feature Request Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-cli#90 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 14, 2015
`chef generate` should support the `-D` (debug) flag Open

Aspect: Stability Triage: Confirmed Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#101 · Opened Dec 5, 2015
Command to bring over installed gems from previous version of ChefDK Open

Aspect: Stability Status: Help Wanted Triage: Confirmed Triage: Feature Request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-cli#98 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2015
'chef generate recipe' doesn't use cookbook name in metadata.rb file Open

Aspect: Stability Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#99 · 10 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2015
`chef` supports command `chef client` Open

Aspect: UX Status: Help Wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#102 · 6 comments · Opened May 26, 2015
embedded/bin should never be in the user's $PATH Open

Aspect: UX Triage: Confirmed Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#103 · 40 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 5, 2015
Update generators to allow use of own license template file Open

Aspect: UX Status: Help Wanted Triage: Feature Request Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#92 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 11, 2015
'chef configure' command Open

Aspect: UX Status: Help Wanted Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#9 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2014
Infer author_name, email, license from knife.rb if it exists when generating a new cookbook. Open

Aspect: UX Status: Help Wanted Triage: Confirmed Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-cli#10 · 6 comments · Opened May 21, 2014

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