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Chef - Configuration Management Tool

The document discusses configuration management tools like Chef and Ansible. It provides instructions on installing Chef workstation, creating a sample "testcookbook" with a recipe to create a file, and running the recipe locally using chef-client. Key points are: - Chef and Ansible are configuration management tools that automate infrastructure configuration tasks. - The document shows how to install Chef workstation, generate a cookbook and recipe to create a file, and run the recipe locally using chef-client. - Recipes define tasks or scenarios to be executed, and are contained within cookbooks in Chef.

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Chef - Configuration Management Tool

The document discusses configuration management tools like Chef and Ansible. It provides instructions on installing Chef workstation, creating a sample "testcookbook" with a recipe to create a file, and running the recipe locally using chef-client. Key points are: - Chef and Ansible are configuration management tools that automate infrastructure configuration tasks. - The document shows how to install Chef workstation, generate a cookbook and recipe to create a file, and run the recipe locally using chef-client. - Recipes define tasks or scenarios to be executed, and are contained within cookbooks in Chef.

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Configuration Management Tool

Configuration Management
 Configuration management is a process similar to what administrators do
manually, here the same tasks are performed by initiating automation.
 We are automating the configuration tasks by using configuration
management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Saltstack.
 Here we are converting code into infrastructure.
 Infrastructure as a code -> IAC
 Since everything here is code we can test, repeat and we can apply version
control.

Features of Chef
 Agent needs to be installed on each Chef Node
 Relies on knife protocol for communication
 Uses ruby language
 Pull mechanism

Chef VS Ansible
Chef Architecture

Installation of Chef Workstation


 Command:- wget https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef-
workstation/21.2.278/el/8/chef-workstation-21.2.278-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
 Command:- yum -y install chef-workstation-21.2.278-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
 Command:- chef --version (to verify chef package version installed)

Create your first Cookbook


 Cookbook is a group of recipes and some other files and folders
 Each cookbook defines a scenario
 Create a new directory to keep all our cookbooks
 Command:- mkdir cookbooks
 Go inside the new directory and create a cookbook (Whatever commands are
going to be execute from here onwards, has to be executed under this new
cookbooks directory)
 Command:- chef generate cookbook testcookbook
 To view the list of all file and folders in tree format of the new cookbook use
 Command:- tree testcookbook
Contents of a Cookbook
 The following files and folders will be present under the Cookbook directory.
 Chefignore – acts as .gitignore file. The files you want to ignore you can here.
 Metadata.rb – this file consists of name, author, version…etc of a cookbook
 Readme.rb – info about the usage of a cookbook
 Recipe – where you write the ruby code to execute certain tasks
 Spec – used for unit testing
 Test – used for integration testing

Create your first Recipe


 Be inside the Cookbooks folder created in earlier slide.
Command:- chef generate recipe testrecipe
vi cookbookname/recipes/ testrecipe.rb
file '/newfile1' do
content "Hello Vince!! testing our first recipe"
action :create
end

Run a Cookbook
 To verify the code which you have written run the below command
 Command:- chef exec ruby –c testcookbook/recipes/testrecipe.rb
 You will get an output “SYNTAX OK” if the code is correct.
 Apply that recipe locally to your machine as we didn’t setup Chef Node
machines yet.
 Command:- chef-client -zr 'recipe[testcookbook::testrecipe]‘
 Verify the file myfile is created under / directory or not by giving the below
command.
 Command:- ls /
Create your second Recipe

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