Mastering Chef

Mayank Joshi

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781783981564
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Computer Science
• Thema: Software Development

Mastering Chef

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Table of Contents

Mastering Chef

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introduction to the Chef Ecosystem

Different modes of running Chef

Terminology used in the world of Chef

The anatomy of a Chef run

A Chef run using chef-client

Step 1 – Building a node object

Step 2 – Authenticate

Step 3 – Synchronization of cookbooks

Step 4 – Loading of cookbooks and convergence

Step 5 – Reporting and exception handling

Using chef-solo

Setting up a work environment

Summary

2. Knife and Its Associated Plugins

Introducing Knife

Managing cookbooks

Creating a new cookbook

Uploading a cookbook to chef-server

Getting the list of all the cookbooks on chef-server

Deleting cookbooks

Downloading a cookbook

Deleting multiple cookbooks

Managing environments

Creating an environment

Deleting an environment

Editing an environment

Listing all environments

Displaying information about an environment

Managing roles

Creating a new role

Deleting a role

Editing a role

Listing all available roles

Displaying information about a role

Managing nodes

Creating a node

Listing all available nodes

Displaying information about a node

Editing a node

Adding stuff to the run_list associated with a node

Deleting stuff from the run_list associated with a node

Deleting a node object

Managing an API client

Creating a new client

Listing all available API clients

Displaying information about a client

Deleting an existing client

Reregistering a client

The search command

Bootstrapping a node

Some useful Knife plugins

The knife-ssh plugin

The knife-ec2 plugin

The knife-azure plugin

The knife-google plugin

The knife-push plugin

Summary

3. Chef and Ruby

Ruby

IRB

Variables and types

Symbols

Basic operations

Arithmetic operators

Comparison operators

Assignment operators

Bitwise operators

Logical operators

The Ruby ternary operator

Ruby range operators

The Ruby defined? operator

Conditional statements and loops

The if statement

The unless statement

The case/when statement

The while loop

The until loop

The for loop

Methods

Blocks

Arrays

Creating an array

Accessing elements of an array

Adding elements to an array

Removing elements from an array

Iterating over an array

Selecting elements of an array

The nondestructive way

The destructive way

Bang methods

Hashes

Creating hashes

Iterating over a hash

Classes and objects

What's an object and a class?

Modules

Summary

4. Controlling Access to Resources

The bootstrap process

Authentication

chef-client

Knife

Custom API calls

Authorization

The Open Source Chef server

Enterprise Chef

Object permissions

Groups

Summary

5. Starting the Journey to the World of Recipes

Resources

Guard attributes

Lazy evaluation of attributes

The package resource

The cookbook_file resource

The directory resource

The file resource

The execute resource

The cron resource

The service resource

The bash resource

The template resource

Helper modules

Inline methods

Inline modules

Library modules

Partial templates

Recipes

Attributes

Types of attributes

Including recipes

The run_list

Recipe DSL methods

The platform method

The platform_family method

The value_for_platform method

The value_for_platform_family method

The attribute method

The resources method

Best practices when writing recipes

Summary

6. Cookbooks and LWRPs

Cookbooks

Authoring a cookbook

Uploading a cookbook to the Chef server

Deleting a cookbook

Testing a cookbook

Cookbook versioning

Operators available for use with versioning

Freezing versions

Maintaining multiple versions of cookbooks

Maximum version control strategy

Branch tracking strategy

Custom resources

Setup

Resource

Provider

Provider DSL

Logging

Summary

7. Roles and Environments

Managing roles

Using Knife

Creating a new role

Editing an existing role

Deleting an existing role

Showing details about an existing role

Listing all roles on the Chef server

Using Ruby DSL

Using a JSON file

Using the Chef API

Using the Chef server WebUI

Managing environments

Using Knife

Creating a new environment

Editing an environment configuration

Deleting an environment

Displaying all the environments configured on the Chef server

Showing details associated with an environment

Comparing cookbook versions across environments

Creating or editing an environment using the configuration specified in a file

Using Ruby DSL

Setting up an environment on a node

Using ...