Bill's Kitchen 3.0 Release

The final Bill's Kitchen 3.0 release. All tools have been updated to their latest version, especially:

• Vagrant has been updated to v1.8.1
• ChefDK has been updated to v0.13.21

Other tools like Git, Atom, ConEmu, Consul, Packer, TerraForm have been updated to their latest version too. Also the Vagrant plugins have been updated to their latest versions.

Apart from the tool updates there were some improvements regarding caching with vagrant-cachier and some tweaks in the git configuration.

For more details please see the CHANGELOG:
https://github.com/tknerr/bills-kitchen/blob/3.0/CHANGELOG.md

Bill's Kitchen 3.0-rc6 Release

Some time has passed, and lots of tools got updated in the meanwhile...

The 3.0-rc6 release brings in:

• a whole bunch of tool and plugin updates, including ChefDK 0.7.0 and Vagrant 1.7.4 and Docker 1.7.1
• improvements and bugfixes for the Vagrant remote docker host support
• all tools included are now compatible with VirtualBox 5 (see #128)

See the full changelog for more details:
https://github.com/tknerr/bills-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#30-rc6-sept-7-2015

Bill's Kitchen 3.0-rc5

The 5th Release Candidate for Bill's Kitchen 3.0, with quite a few tool updates and improved docker remote host support.

Summary:

• tool updates: ChefDK 0.6.0, Terraform 0.5.2, Consul 0.5.1, Docker 1.6.2, Atom 0.199.0
• plugin updates: added vagrant-winrm 0.7.0 and updated to vagrant-berkshelf 4.0.4
• fixed two bugs related to docker remote host support: volume mounts and multi-machine setups now work as expected

See full changelog here:
https://github.com/tknerr/bills-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#30-rc5-may-17-2015

Bill's Kitchen 3.0-rc4

The 4th Release Candidate for Bill's Kitchen 3.0

Summary:

• fixes several issues which essentially rendered the b2d-start script unusable (see #104)
• the git user was not correctly reset in 3.0-rc3, not it is again (see #103)

Changelog:
https://github.com/tknerr/bills-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#30-rc4-may-5-2015

Bill's Kitchen 3.0-rc3

The 3rd Release Candidate for Bill's Kitchen 3.0

Summary:

• update to ChefDK 0.5.1 and Atom 0.196.0
• better proxy support (see #102)
• patch vagrant for remote docker host support (see #100)
• boot2docker related improvements (volume mounts working now, more resilient b2d-start and b2d-stop scripts, added b2d alias)
• a few other improvements and bugfixes

Full Changelog:
https://github.com/tknerr/bills-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#30-rc3-may-4-2015

Bill's Kitchen 3.0-rc2

The 2nd Release Candidate for Bill's Kitchen 3.0

Summary:

• new tools: add Docker 1.6.0 (docker client and boot2docker)
• update to ChefDK 0.5.0.rc5 and Ruby 2.1.5
• improve rsync support by replacing the self-hosted cygwin ssh + rsync binaries with cwRsync 5.4.1
• update all the other tools to their latest version

Full Changelog:
https://github.com/tknerr/bills-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#30-rc2-april-20-2015

Bill's Kitchen 3.0-rc1

First Release Candidate for Bill's Kitchen 3.0

This 3.0-rc1 release is quite stable and all acceptance tests are passing. I'm still waiting for ChefDK 0.5.0 to come out for a final release though. Feedback wanted!

Summary:

• Breaking Change: replace SublimeText with Atom editor + selected plugins (BK is 100% open source now! :-))
• update to latest ChefDK 0.5.0-rc2
• update other tools and vagrant plugins to their latest version
• make it work with git-bash as an alternative to cmd.exe
• fix a caching optimization that broke with latest test-kitchen 1.4-rc2

Full Changelog:
https://github.com/tknerr/bills-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#30-rc1-april-1-2015

Bill's Kitchen 2.3

Updates to latest ChefDK version 0.3.6 and adds a few minor improvements:

• mimic chef shell-init behaviour by setting env vars accordingly
• user installed gems will be installed to $HOME/.chefdk again (see #71)
• update packaging to that it does not include the intermediary build directory anymore (#63)

Changelog:
https://github.com/tknerr/bills-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#23-january-23-2015

Bill's Kitchen 2.2

Bill's Kitchen 2.2 is mostly a "tool update release" which includes the latest Vagrant 1.7.2. Along with that all Vagrant plugins have been updated to the latest version.

In addition Packer, Terraform and Consul have been added and PortableGit has been updated to the latest version too. A few configuration tweaks for improved caching and faster bundle installs should make the overall experience smoother. See the full CHANGELOG for more details.

It has been tested using the vagrant-workflow-tests suite to exercise some typical workflows like cloning a repo, installing gem dependencies, bringing up VMs, resolving cookbook dependencies as well as running unit and integration tests against a sample cookbook and infrastructure repo.

You can run the same test suite to verify your Bill's Kitchen installation (might take a while):

• unzip bills-kitchen-2.2.7z somewhere
• mount it to the W: drive via mount-drive.cmd
• launch the ConEmu console via W:\Launch ConEmu.lnk, then
  • cd repo
  • git clone https://github.com/tknerr/vagrant-workflow-tests
  • cd vagrant-workflow-tests
  • run rspec to start all workflow tests
  • run tail -f repo\vagrant-workflow-tests\acceptance.log in a second tab to see what's going on
  • (I guess you can go for a ☕ now ;-))
• if all tests pass it should look like this in the end:
  

Please note: Bill's Kitchen contains a trial version of SublimeText editor. Please consider buying a license if you plan to use it beyond evaluation!

Bill's Kitchen 2.1

This is the very first Bill's Kitchen Release with published binaries now that the acknowledgements & licensing info have been added.

It includes the latest Vagrant 1.6.5 and ChefDK 0.3.5, plus lots of other tool updates, improvements and minor bugfixes. See the full CHANGELOG for more details.

The binaries come in two flavors:

1. bills-kitchen-2.1.7z - the pristine DevPack with no runtime data whatsoever (~272 MB)
2. bills-kitchen-2.1-preloaded.7z - the same DevPack but pre-loaded with some VM images / packages / gems already cached after running the workflow tests (~720 MB)

Please note: Bill's Kitchen contains a trial version of SublimeText editor. Please consider buying a license if you plan to use it beyond evaluation!

That's included: