A formatter for Chef to keep the output of chef-client as small as possible. Unlike default minimal formatter it shows more info about updated resources.

This formatter will display the total number of processed resources, as the number of unchanged, updated and failed resources.

This is inspired by Nyan Cat <3 Chef Formatter. Actually no, scratch that: this is basically a ripoff. So sue me second after @andreacampi.

Install the gem:

gem install minimal-diff-chef-formatter

If you are using Omnibus Chef you need to specify the full path to the gem binary:

/opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install minimal-diff-chef-formatter

Or write a cookbook to install it using the chef_gem resource, if that's how you roll. See http:https://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/nyan-cat for inspiration.

Then add the following to your /etc/chef/client.rb file:

gem 'minimal-diff-chef-formatter'
require 'minimal-diff-chef-formatter'

This enables the formatter, but doesn't use it by default. To see Nyan in all its glory, run:

chef-client -Fmindiff -lfatal

Enjoy!

To enable the Nyan formatter by default, add the following line to /etc/chef/client.rb:

formatter :mindiff

Vyacheslav Kuznetsov :: @smith3v Andrea Campi :: @andreacampi Matt Sears :: @mattsears