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The Chef integration for Visual Studio Team Services provides a set of tasks to automate commonly performed build and release activities against the Chef Automate platform.

This site provides detailed documentation on the released tasks.

Getting Started

Agent Compatibility

There are a number of tasks in the extension, most of them work on Windows and Linux in both private and Hosted Agents. However there are a couple of places where this is not the case. The following table shows what tasks will run where.

Task	Private Windows Agent	Private Linux Agent	Hosted Windows Agent	Hosted Linux Agent
Update Cookbook Version Number	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Upload Cookbook to Chef Server	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Install ChefDK	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Linting	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Test Kitchen	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Install Cookbook Gems	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Install Gem	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Execute Knife	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Add Variables to Chef Environment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Release cookbook version to environment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Install InSpec	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Excute InSpec	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Execute Chef Client	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Publish Cookbook to Supermarket	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

**Note: ** To install ChefDK or InSpec on a Private Linux Agent then task process must be running as root or under an account that has passwordless sudo access. For a Private Windows Agent the process must be running with elevated privileges.

Extension Wide Behaviour

In some scenarios it maybe necessary to run more than one Azure DevOps agent on one machine. In this situation, if the flag to remove the private key is selected on a task, one agent will complete before the other one and therefore remove the private key. This means that it will not be available for the other agent and thus the pipeline will fail.

To allow this scenario to work, the extension will now name the private key filename based on the agent ID and, if available, the release environment name. This allows the task to work during the build phase and the release phase.

Releases

We are continually developing and updating the extension. To keep track of the changes please refer to the release versions below or from the navigation.

• 1.4.21
• 1.4.16
• 1.3.6
• 1.2.62
• 1.1.5
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.13