Learning chef and inspec testing.

• Start
  • Generator: chef generate cookbook apache
  • Chef Resources Setup: nano apache/recipes/server.rb
  • Default Recipe calls setup.rb: nano apache/recipes/default.rb add: include_recipe 'apache::server'
• Kitchen tests (Inspec):
  • Start: kitchen init
  • Modify .kitchen.yml: nano apache .kitchen.yml add kitchen config
  • Add inspec Test: Test Inspect below nano apache/test/smoke/default/default_test.rb
• Template
  • run chef generate template cookbooks/apache index.html
  • modify cookbooks/apache/template/index.html.erb with <%= => notation
  • modify cookbooks/apache/recipes/setup.rb delete file and add template notation

• Check if recipes are ok: sudo chef-client --local-mode apache/recipes/server.rb
• Check if recipes are ok: sudo chef-client --local-mode -r 'recipe[apache]'
• Check syntax : cookstyle
• Generate Template: chef generate template cookbooks/apache index.html

• Using Docker
• Plataform centos_6.4

• Package httpd: install
• File /var/www/html/index.html: create with content and Node variables.
• Service httpd: enable and start
• Template /var/www/html/index.html for the Generated .erb file.  

• USER: Root user if not Windows
• PORT: Listen to 80 port
• FILE: /var/www/html/index.html is a File
• FILE: /var/www/html/index.html is from Root user
• COMMAND: /var/www/html/index.html curl gets a hello, world

• Source Repo: https://gist.github.com/kennonkwok/d22e94b77791a68c13ec8eab9189077d
• Chef
  • Chef Resource: https://docs.chef.io/resources.html
  • Chef Resource File: https://docs.chef.io/resource_file.html
  • Chef Client Commands: http://doces.chef.io/chef_client.html
  • Chef Cookbooks: http://docs.chef.io/cookbooks.html
  • Chef Cookbook file: https://docs.chef.io/resource_cookbook_file.html
  • Chef Templates: https://docs.chef.io/resource_template.html
  • Chef erb files: https://docs.chef.io/templates.html#variable
• Inspec
  • Inspec File test: https://www.inspec.io/docs/reference/resources/file/
  • Inspect Port test: https://www.inspec.io/docs/reference/resources/port/
  • Inspect command test: https://www.inspec.io/docs/reference/resources/command/