Chef Tutorials: Chef roles Tutorials and Example
What is Role? A role is a way to define certain patterns and processes that exist across nodes in an organization as belonging to a single job function. Each role…
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Chef Tutorials – notifies and subscribes explained with examples of Notifications
Chef notifies and subscribes explained with examples A notification is a property on a resource that listens to other resources in the resource collection and then takes actions based…
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Chef Tutorials: Logging in Chef Explained
Chef Server All logs generated by the Chef server can be found in /var/log/opscode. Each service enabled on the system also has a sub-directory in which service-specific logs are located,…
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What is the significance of the default directory under chef cookbook /templates?
What is the significance of the default directory under chef cookbook /templates? A cookbook is frequently designed to work across many platforms and is often required to distribute a specific…
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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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