# The CHEF cookbooks need help

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004>\
**Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\
**Created:** [December 11, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004 "2015-12-11T17:18:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![spuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spuder/32/44895_2.png) [@spuder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spuder)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004/1 "2015-12-11T17:18:37Z")

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The puppet modules are well maintained.  
The CHEF cookbooks not so much.

The elasticsearch cookbook just got a rewrite which is fantastic. However the semi official logstash and kibana cookbooks have quite a few bugs and feel abandoned.

There are over a dozen pull requests, yet the author wont respond to github mentions or even direct emails.

> **[lusis/chef-logstash](https://github.com/lusis/chef-logstash/pulls)**
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> chef-logstash - Semi-official Logstash cookbook

Could elastic give the CHEF community some love? I'm willing to open more pull requests to improve the cookbooks if someone will just respond to them.

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**Author:** ![rossayoung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@rossayoung](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rossayoung)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004/2 "2015-12-11T18:56:04Z")

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yes agreed the chef cookbooks for elasticsearch are up to date:  
[https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/elasticsearch](https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/elasticsearch)

however no love for logstash or kibana. Would really love if they supported the newest versions

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**Author:** ![spuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spuder/32/44895_2.png) [@spuder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spuder)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004/3 "2015-12-11T19:20:19Z")

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I have logstash and kibana cookbooks deploying the latest versions (2.1.0 & 4.3.0) , but the cookbooks have some bugs. Need to get some of the merge requests accepted.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004/4 "2015-12-11T23:58:54Z")

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I can only see one PR from you that was opened yesterday? Are there others you can point us to that haven't been accepted?

However your overall point about it being out of date is taken, I have raised this internally as well.

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**Author:** ![spuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spuder/32/44895_2.png) [@spuder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spuder)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004/5 "2015-12-12T00:26:42Z")

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These pull requests should all be ready to go

Logstash cookbook

> <https://github.com/lusis/chef-logstash/pull/435>

> <https://github.com/lusis/chef-logstash/pull/431>

And on the kibana cookbook

> <https://github.com/lusis/chef-kibana/pull/105>

> <https://github.com/lusis/chef-kibana/pull/108>

> <https://github.com/lusis/chef-kibana/pull/102>

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004/6 "2015-12-12T00:32:04Z")

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Ah ok, we don't control those so I can't help there sorry.

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**Author:** ![spuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spuder/32/44895_2.png) [@spuder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spuder)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004/7 "2016-01-04T18:50:41Z")

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Sounds like there is a new maintainer (martinb3).

> <https://twitter.com/spencer450/status/684082364591419393>

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**Author:** ![StivOstenberg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stivostenberg/32/4681_2.png) [@StivOstenberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/StivOstenberg)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004/8 "2017-06-16T16:31:55Z")

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The last comment in this thread appears to be well over a year old. Sadly, the problems still appear to remain. Cookbooks I have found are stale, and are certainly not valid for current releases. I found a Beats recipe, but it lacks many of the options available in 5.4 (such as Kafka) and the author seems to be AFK for months. Not blaming him, he at least gave me a starting point, but it seems that [Elastic.co](http://Elastic.co) should maintain the deployment tools for their products so they stay in sync. 5.4 did great in synchronizing the executables, just take that last step and add deployment tools to the development and test cycle. Please?

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**Author:** ![eriktrom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@eriktrom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eriktrom)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004/9 "2017-07-06T09:26:59Z")

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+1 - seems beneficial to elastic from a business perspective

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-chef-cookbooks-need-help/37004/10 "2022-11-04T04:11:10Z")

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