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I was reading a conversation in RLS about github repository template generators, wherein they were talking about generators that updated things generated using the template.

I was struck by the realization that I haven't thought about repository generators/template synchronization in years. Does anyone else in the #cheffriends #puppetize communities remember the tooling they used for this stuff? I remember going through a bunch of things at first then writing my own like a clown.

Nov 29, 2022 at 3:27amWeb
Show threadLamont GranquistDec 4, 2022
@cognitivebios do you mean chef-dk and stuff like 'chef generate cookbook'? think there were also some third party gems which did similar things (mise-en-place or some other cooking term like that?). poise-boiler was another take on that general problem of keeping cookbook repos in sync.
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@lamont this tooling predated the chefdk, it was somewhat similar to poise-boiler though. I've tried to dig through my memories for any tool names and come up short. It was a niche desire of enterprise sysadmins who'd done a little fiddling with early CM tooling and upon introducing things to their larger organizations found that keeping the heterogeny of opinions in enough alignment to prevent outages was tough. So, some kind of thing to keep the templates and things generated from them in sync