Chef frequently used commands collection
To run single recipe using chef-solo > chef-solo -c /opt/chef/repo/config/solo.rb -o my_cookbook::recipe To run the single reciepe in same machine > chef-apply hello.rb To generate the cookbook standard structure >…
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Understanding the chef cookbook’s README file
Problems Area – Our infrastructure has many cookbooks that aim to be reusable, primarily through encapsulating behaviour in LWRPs. This led to an explosion of LWRPs and sometimes the documentation…
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Understanding the chef cookbook’s metadata.rb and metadata.json file
What is Metadata in chef? In order to understand cookbooks without evaluating them every files, we generate metadata about cookbooks What is metadata.rb? Before unerstanding about metadata.json, we need to…
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