okchef 1.2.1

python client library for Chef Server

import chef

client = chef.ChefClient('https://api.opscode.com')
# not to be confused with chef-client, the agent :)
client.authenticate('chef-user', '~/chef-user.pem')
response = client.get('/users/chef-user')
response.json()
...
{'display_name': 'chef-user',
 'email': '[e-mail]',
 'first_name': 'Chef',
 'last_name': 'User',
 'middle_name': '',
 'public_key': '-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIj...IDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n',
 'username': 'chef-user'}

Authentication & Authorization

okchef uses the auth handler from the requests-chef library at https://github.com/samstav/requests-chef

Install

Before installing okchef, see the current installation instructions for requests-chef: https://github.com/samstav/requests-chef#install

If you don’t feel like reading those, you can use --process-dependency-links (for now)

$ pip install -U --process-dependency-links okchef

Preferably, you’ve read the install for requests-chef, so this will work:

# -U ensures you get the latest version
$ pip install -U okchef