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Mastering Chef

Mastering Chef

By : Mayank Joshi
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Mastering Chef

Mastering Chef

2.5 (4)
By: Mayank Joshi
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Overview of this book

If you have used Chef before and are interested in automation of infrastructure and want to develop your own tools to manage large-scale infrastructures, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Introduction to the Chef Ecosystem
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1. Introduction to the Chef Ecosystem
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Different modes of running Chef
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Terminology used in the world of Chef
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The anatomy of a Chef run
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Setting up a work environment
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Summary
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2. Knife and Its Associated Plugins
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2. Knife and Its Associated Plugins
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Introducing Knife
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3. Chef and Ruby
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3. Chef and Ruby
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Ruby
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IRB
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Variables and types
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Symbols
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Basic operations
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Conditional statements and loops
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Methods
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Arrays
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Bang methods
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Hashes
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Classes and objects
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4. Controlling Access to Resources
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4. Controlling Access to Resources
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The bootstrap process
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Authentication
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Authorization
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5. Starting the Journey to the World of Recipes
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5. Starting the Journey to the World of Recipes
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Resources
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Recipes
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Best practices when writing recipes
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6. Cookbooks and LWRPs
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6. Cookbooks and LWRPs
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Cookbooks
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Custom resources
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7. Roles and Environments
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7. Roles and Environments
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Managing roles
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Managing environments
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Setting up an environment on a node
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Role and environment attributes
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Environment run lists
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8. Attributes and Their Uses
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8. Attributes and Their Uses
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Attribute naming
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Different types of attributes
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Different sources of attributes
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Attribute precedence
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Attribute whitelisting
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9. Ohai and Its Plugin Ecosystem
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9. Ohai and Its Plugin Ecosystem
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Running the Ohai binary
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Ohai plugins
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Custom plugins
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10. Data Bags and Templates
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10. Data Bags and Templates
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Data bags
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Templates
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11. Chef API and Search
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11. Chef API and Search
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Prerequisites for using Chef API
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Authentication of requests
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Endpoints
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Search
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Ridley
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12. Extending Chef
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12. Extending Chef
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Custom Knife plugins
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Custom Chef handlers
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13. (Ab)Using Chef
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13. (Ab)Using Chef
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The dynamic server list in Capistrano using Chef
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Capistrano style deployments using Chef's "deploy" resource
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Extending Chef to bootstrap distributed systems
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Test-driven development with Chef
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Types of tests
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Index
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Index

Introducing Knife

Knife is a command-line tool that comes bundled with the Chef installation. Depending upon how Chef was installed, you may find the binary at any particular location on your workstation. Since I have installed Chef using rvm and gem packaging, it is found at ~/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/chef-11.8.2/bin/knife.

Depending upon your setup, you may find it at some other location. Whatever the location, ensure that it is in your PATH variable.

Knife is used for almost every aspect of managing your interactions with chef-server. It helps us manage:

  • Cookbooks
  • Environments
  • Roles
  • Data bags
  • Nodes
  • API clients
  • Bootstrapping of instances
  • Searching for nodes

Let's see what the knife command has to offer to us. Just fire up the terminal and enter the command:

$knife
ERROR: You need to pass a sub-command (e.g., knife SUB-COMMAND)
Usage: knife sub-command (options)
    -s, --server-url URL             Chef Server URL
        --chef-zero-port PORT        Port to start chef-zero on
    -k, --key...
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