Originally given at ChefConf 2014, this talk simply titled "Chef Sugar" covers the who, what, when, where, and why for Chef Sugar. The talk begins as a small history lesson, but ends by diving deep into the Ruby internals of Chef Sugar to see who everything is ...

A few months ago, I blogged about a thing called Chef Sugar. To quickly refresh your memory, Chef Sugar is an extension of the Chef core, recipe DSL, and select resources designed to make life as a Chef engineer as awesome as possible. I first wrote Chef Sugar ...

A few months ago, I was having a discussion with some colleagues internally and CHEF-494 came up. In short, the ticket was created by Seth Chisamore and proposed creating a core cookbook that included some useful primitives for common patterns: