Chef Internal – How Chef maintain the state of each resources internally?
Chef Client A chef-client is an agent that runs locally on every node that is under management by Chef. The chef-client executable can be run as a daemon. When a…
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Top Interview Questions on Server Configuration Management Tools Chef, Puppet, and Ansible
Source – http://hub.scalr.com/blog/top-questions-on-server-configuration-management-tools-chef-puppet-and-ansible-2 As a quick recap, configuration management tools enable companies to standardize and automate their infrastructure. Through standardization, you can build systems that are platform independent (i.e. instead…
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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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Top 10 DevOps Tools which is mostly used by DevOps Engineers | DevOpsSchool
Introduction “DevOps” is an emerging model that allows effective collaboration of development and Operations team so that they can build, test, and release software faster and more reliably. Traditionally in…
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Chef Lab and Excercise – Cookbooks – Part 5
Write a cookbook using you can install apache http server in CentOs and Ubuntu, enable the services and start the service. Write a recipe using template resources to create a…
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Chef Lab and Excercise – Cookbooks – Part 6
Write a cookbook using you can install apache http server in CentOs and Ubuntu, enable the services and start the service. Write a recipe using template resources to create a…
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Chef Training | Chef Course | Online | Classroom | scmGalaxy
ScmGalaxy is the best contributor to Chef Courses, training, and certification. Our Chef Trainers and advisers are highly equipped with more than 15 years of rich experience in the Software…
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Provision a AWS ec2 vm using chef | Step by Step Guide | AWS ec2 vm Tutorial
Provision a AWS ec2 vm using chef Step 1: Install chefdk Step 2: Setup AWS Credentails Step X: Setup your knife config Step X: Make sure following is set and…
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Chef Code Analysis using Foodcritic | Foodcritic Tutorial
What is Foodcritic? Foodcritic is a static linting tool that analyzes all of the Ruby code that is authored in a cookbook against a number of rules, and then returns…
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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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Chef Configuration Management Interview Questions and Answers Part – 1
Source – learn.chef.io What is a resource? Answer- A resource represents a piece of infrastructure and its desired state, such as a package that should be installed, a service that…
Read more » Chef Configuration Management Interview Questions and Answers Part – 2
Source – learn.chef.io What is a resource? Answer- A resource represents a piece of infrastructure and its desired state, such as a package that should be installed, a service that…
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Bootstrap a Microsoft Windows node using Chef
Bootstrap a Microsoft Windows node, the “knife windows” plugin is required, More info about knife window tool, http://docs.chef.io/plugin_knife_windows.html knife bootstrap windows winrm uvo1eak9a5geec05f7z.vm.cld.sr –winrm-user administrator –winrm-password ‘Rx4m7W4PQu’ –node-name firefox_win –run-list…
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Top 5 Configuration Management Tools
Top 5 Configuration Management Tools Puppet In computing, Puppet is an open-source configuration management utility. It runs on many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows, and includes its…
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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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Chef Open Training | Chef Training | Chef Course | Online | Classroom
While these training materials are helpful, they aren’t meant to replace the official documentation, or instructor-led courses. These materials are the same as those used during our public and private training sessions….
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Chef configuration management | Chef Training | Chef Course | Online | Classroom
This course aims to prepare key development, engineering, and operations staff to use Chef to write infrastructure. Each of the core units in the course has hands on exercises to…
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