The managed_directory LWRP inspects the Chef resource collection to identify managed files in a directory, then removes any unmanaged files it finds there.

Version 0.9.0 of the MCollective Chef cookbook addresses the three issues from the original announcement: Ohai fact speed, fact list size, and default recipe name normalisation.

MCollective is a Ruby framework for building server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. Although it often seems to go hand-in-hand with Puppet, it can readily be used with Chef. Here's how.