Prerequisites for Chef Training

Hardware - Prerequisites

CENTOS 7: Number of Machine - 2

Windows 2012: Number of Machine - 1

Every machine should have 2 VM's with Centos 7 version.

Each VM should be able to connect with Internet and Internal corporate proxy should be set accordingly.

Every Base Machine (Windows Machine) should have at least 8GB RAM

Every VM Machine must have minimum 2GB Ram

Every Base Machine (Windows Machine) should have Putty, Oracle VirtualBox and WinScp Installed

Every VM should have fully qualified hostname which should be pinged each other VMs and Host Machine.

Every VM should have bridge network preferred

Every VM should have static IP setup resolving to Bridge connected

Each Machine should have “sudo yum update” run in full cycle.

Corporate Proxy server:port should be available to use by participants in case of download limitation and firewall.

Software - Prerequisite

Following tools should be installed

CentOS VM - http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1511.iso

Putty - http://www.putty.org/

WinSCP - https://winscp.net/eng/download.php

CHEFDK - https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chefdk/1.1.16/el/7/chefdk-1.1.16-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

CHEF SERVER - https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef-server/12.11.1/el/7/chef-server-core-12.11.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

CHEF CLIENT CENTOS7 - https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef/12.17.44/el/7/chef-12.17.44-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

CHEF CLIENT WINDOWS - https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef/12.17.44/windows/2012/chef-client-12.17.44-1-x64.msi

Following tools should be Copied to Shared Drive

Chefdk, ChefServer

Following Commands should be run in Centos 7

Docker in Centos, Please run follwing commands.

	
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/docker.repo <<-'EOF'
[dockerrepo]
name=Docker Repository
baseurl=https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/centos/7/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://yum.dockerproject.org/gpg
EOF
$ sudo yum install docker-engine

Others Prerequisite

Internet Speed - Each Box should have at least 8MBPS internet speed.

Help for Lab Setup Team

Topics
Configuring Web Proxy on CentOS
Setting the proxy configuration in Linux and Windows
Installing Centos7 in Oracle VM VirtualBox

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