chef / chef/chef-server

Need an external API to use for monitoring and other automation purposes

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Component: others Status: Help Wanted Triage: Feature Request
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Erlang
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Description

Originally the chef sensu plugin used chef/rest to pull information about nodes and the server for monitoring purposes, in chef 13 this was deprecated without a clear successor. As ridley was very stable and used in berkshelf we moved to that but then they deprecated external use. We searched and found https://github.com/sethvargo/chef-api but it indicated it was under heavy development and not production ready so we held off now it has been archived. I spoke with @tas50 about this and he said we should open an issue here to discuss.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-chef issues and the history of chef/rest, ridley, and chef-api. The issue does not name implementation files, tests, or a defined API scope; completion would require an agreed production-ready external API for monitoring and automation.

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Assessment

Tech stack
erlang
Domain
api, backend-api-design
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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