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Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

By : Matthias Marschall
Book Image

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

By: Matthias Marschall

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing NTP


Your nodes should always have synchronized clocks, if nothing else, because the Chef server requires clients' clocks to be synchronized with it. This is required because the authentication of clients is based on a time window in order to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.

NTP is there to synchronize your nodes' clocks with its upstream peers. It usually uses a set of trusted upstream peers so that it gets a reliable timing signal.

It's a good idea to put the installation of NTP into a role, which you assign to every node. Bugs caused by clocks, which are out of sync, are not nice to track down. Better avoid them in the first place by using NTP on every node.

Getting ready

Create Berksfile in your Chef repository including the ntp cookbook:

mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ subl Berksfile
cookbook 'ntp'

Install the ntp cookbook:

mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ berks install
Resolving cookbook dependencies...
Using ntp (1.7.0)

Upload the ntp cookbook to the Chef server:

mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ berks...