Stuff related to the CHEF Funadamentals Training Course.

This repository will help you play around with CHEF. You will be able to spin-up a bunch of VMs, using vagrant. All needed tools plus the example recipes will be available in the VMs.

• notes_raw.txt: some raw notes from CHEF Funadamentals Training training.

• chef/: CHEF recipies and examples. This directory will be mounted under /chef on all VMs.

• vms/: a set of Vagrant VMs that can run the course. To spin-up any of these VMs, you can run vagrant up <vm_name> under this directory. Available VMs as per the list below:

  • devbox: workstation VM with ChefDK that manages the chef-code.
  • node1: VM with client tools installed (i.e. chef-apply)

Objective: customise /etc/motd file on a linux node.

Prerequisites:

• binary chef-apply needs to be installed on the node
• sudo chef-apply should be privilege granted for the user
• the actuall chef-recipe (source file) needs to be locally available

Tools: chef-apply

Try example #1 ...

• CHEF Funadamentals
• chef-apply
• Omnitruck API

0. Enable debug mode in vagrant up for VMs.

1. Add more training examples.

2. Import custom folder per VM (for own recipies/customization files, etc.).

3. Avoid hard-coding Chef-Server rpm URL; use an equivalent of the following instead:

$ curl 'https://www.opscode.com/chef/metadata?v=12&prerelease=false&nightlies=false&p=el&pv=6&m=x86_64'
url    https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/el/6/x86_64/chef-12.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
md5    c19fefcb3d033107e9fbdb3839312584
sha256 4b7c846a9ad93564cc203a5ac99890431f7d6ad159c424aa89827fd772c9881d

4. Possibly use Ubuntu for the devbox/workstation VM.