Introduction
“Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. Julia Child”
Chef, the lead in automation industry has many tickling facet and calibre. Before introducing the potentials of “The Chef”, it’s non negotiable to evade the foresight of its relevance to devops exercises. Chef can take care of server automation, infrastructure environment and continuously deliver your application.
Motive behind this array
With this blog series, we will familiarize you with the concepts of chef and will try to make you comfortable with our hands on blogs. This series of blog contains 15 blogs in a row which will enhance the knowledge and draw your faith in chef.
“Always Pre-Heat The Oven Before Putting The Meat In !!”
Prerequisites
For all the upcoming blogs we presume that you have basic understanding of Git, Docker,Vagrant and Linux. This blog series is written in consideration with centos as platform, although you can apply them on ubuntu by following some minor changes.
We are going to use our public git repository for all the blogs in this series. We will be using centos7 vagrant box to spin up our testing environment.
We are going to follow a single problem statement in our all blogs to maintain the uniformity and avoid the ambiguity. We are going to install nginx using chef and deploying two virtual host (opstree.com/blog/, chef.opstree.com) with it.
Blogs in this series
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In this blog we describe Nginx and manually setup the nginx, as per the problem statement and also create two virtual host(opstree.com/blog/, chef.opstree.com).
Here we took some example of resources such as package, git, file and service and put our hands to work with chef-apply. We perform some simple task using chef resources.
This blog provides you theoretical concepts about chef resources. In this article resources and their attributes elaborated.
Chef recipes is in consideration for this edition. Create your first recipe and apply it with chef. Complete doctrine behind the recipes of chef with simplified examples.
Walls of chef house, the cookbook, written from scratch with step to step explanation. Setup of nginx and proxy implementation with sample cookbook.
This blog furnish entire theoretical stuff about cookbooks. This includes command line cookbook generation and handling. One by one description of complete directory structure of a cookbook.
Installation of chef kitchen. Testing of our nginx cookbook in different environment using docker container. Create, converge, verify and destroy a node with kitchen.
Theory behind the chef kitchen. Complete cycle of kitchen. With in this article elaborated view of .kitchen.yml file, and .kitchen folder provided.
Chef lint tools, foodcritic and rubocop requirement. Theory, setup and practice exercises for foodcritic and rubocop.
Introduction to databags and their need. Division of code and data with databags. Databags implementation with chef-solo. Setup of mysql password with databags.
Requirement and implementation of chef roles. Clubbing of multiple nodes with chef roles. Complete web stack (webserver, proxy server and database) setup with roles.
Chef environments for better management of the need of an organization. A complete organizational view with chef to setup different environment. Handle environments with chef-knife.
Complete setup of chef client-server mode. Use of vagrant provisioning only, to spin up chef-server, chef-client and workstation.
How chef-server, client and workstations work together to automate a complete infrastructure. Chef-server web interface.
Kickoff working with workstation. Chef-client. Install nginx and setup proxies with nginx cookbook on client node.
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