tom--bo / chefviz

Chefviz creates the dot files of recipes dependency-graph for graphviz.

chefviz

Description

Chefviz creates the dot files of recipes dependency-graph for graphviz.

Usage

chefviz [--rootdir /path/to/chef-directory] cookbook::recipe

The rootdir option can specify both absolute and relative path.

For example,,,

$ chefviz --rootdir /path/to/sample-chef-repo nginx::default > test.dot
$ cat test.dot
digraph G {
	"nginx::default"->"nginx::ngx_lua_module";
	"nginx::ngx_lua_module"->"nginx::lua";
	"nginx::ngx_lua_module"->"nginx::ngx_devel_module";
	"nginx::default";
	"nginx::lua";
	"nginx::ngx_devel_module";
	"nginx::ngx_lua_module";

}

# Then you can get the graph by dot command(graphviz).
$ dot -Tpng test.dot -o test.png

Install

To install, use go get:

$ go get github.com/tom--bo/chefviz

Contribution

1. Fork (https://github.com/tom--bo/chefviz/fork)
2. Create a feature branch
3. Commit your changes
4. Rebase your local changes against the master branch
5. Run test suite with the go test ./... command and confirm that it passes
6. Run gofmt -s
7. Create a new Pull Request

Author

tom--bo

chefviz's Issues

Fix cookbooks and site-cookbooks bug

Add option -root to specify root directory

Default = (current dir)

Enable to specify role

Accept multiple roles or recipes

Avoid recipes repetition