I'm learning Chef via Udemy, and one of the topics is to test cookbook syntax with cookstyle. I wrote a very simple cookbook and tried to test it with cookstyle:

path/to/Chef# cat test-cookbook.rb

user "spencer" do
  shell '/bin/bash'
  uid '9999'
end

path/to/Chef# cookstyle test-cookbook.rb
cookstyle: command not found

The tutorial is using ChefDK, which I've found is outdated. I used apt install chef as root, which I assume is downloading the workstation, and I tried running cookstyle as root also. Is cookstyle outdated, too?

CodePudding user response：

The chef package contains only some binaries and Chef libraries for the client. Quoting from output of apt info chef command:

This package provides the chef-client, chef-solo, and knife binaries as well as the Chef library.

This does not contain the Chef workstation package. Chef workstation can be downloaded from: https://www.chef.io/downloads/tools/workstation.

The cookstyle command will be available when you install workstation.