Vagrant also supports two methods of using Chef:
Chef-solo
Chef in client/server mode with Chef client
Let's take a look at how to configure Vagrant with Chef using these two different methods.
Chef-solo is the Chef equivalent of Puppet standalone.
The simplest way to use this within our project is simply to provide a Chef run list to Vagrant; this tells Vagrant which cookbooks should be applied. The following is an example of telling Vagrant to use the PHP cookbook:
config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef| chef.add_recipe "php" end
This takes the PHP cookbook from the default cookbooks folder and applies it to the virtual machine.
As with Puppet, Vagrant makes some assumptions by default; they are as follows:
Cookbooks are stored in the
cookbooksfolder within the project root. Thechef.cookbooks_pathsetting allows us to override thecookbooksfolder location. We can either provide a single path or an array of paths (wrapped in square brackets...