What is Chef tools? Benefits of Using Chef tools.
What is Chef tools? A Chef is an Open-source configurations management tools it’s developed by AAPS code community in the year 2008. Chef tools is written in Ruby and Erlang….
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Why do we make a new cookbook dependent upon one or more different cookbooks? So that we don’t breach copyright So that we can make use of Berkshelf So we…
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Example of .kitchen.yml for driver plugin aws ec2 with windows for Chef Test Kitchen
Issues – Windows create fails fetching passwordWorkaround kitchen create windows # This will fail when trying to fetch the password Edit .kitchen/windows.yml – Add the username, password, and status lines…
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Difference between Chef infra Server vs Chef Zero vs Chef Solo
Chef Infra Server The preferred way to run Chef in a large server farm is with each server (“node” in chef parlance) talking to a centrally-managed Chef server. You can…
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How to test Chef recipes/cookbooks on your workstation with VAGRANT and VirtualBox using Test Kitchen
Install Test Kitchen, VAGRANT and VirtualBox: Chef Test Kitchen: Test Kitchen is a testing tool that can execute your CHEF recipes on one or more platforms in isolation. A driver…
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Chef Configuration Management Interview Questions and Answers Part – 4
1. What is Chef?Answer: It is a powerful automation platform that provides a way to transforms infrastructure into code. A chef is a tool for which you write scripts that are…
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Chef Configuration Management Interview Questions and Answers Part – 3
What is a resource? Read-only data identified by a type and a name. A description of some piece of a system and its desired state. – ANS An ordered series…
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Top 10 Chef in-built and common resource types with example
package: Used to manage packages on a node service: Used to manage services on a node user: Manage users on the node group: Manage groups template: Manage files with embedded…
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Chef Terminology and Definition Guide
Chef Server: a central server that stores information and manages provisioning of the nodes Chef Node: an individual server that is managed by a Chef Server Chef Workstation: a controller…
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Chef Command Line Complete References
chef-server-ctl Command line reference knife Command line reference Chef Command line reference Chef frequently used commands collection
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Chef Infra Server and Administrator Guide and Reference
Chef Infra Server Install and Configuration Chef Infra Workstation Install and Configuration using Knife Chef Node Install and Configuration using Chef Client in Windows How to run chef-client in why-run…
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Understanding a Chef Cookbook Anatomy with Example
Understanding the chef cookbook’s chefignore file Understanding the chef cookbook’s Berkshelf file What is the significance of the default directory under chef cookbook /templates? Understanding the chef cookbook’s README file…
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Chef Cookbook and Recipe Developement Guide and Reference with Example
How to install Chef Development Kit(ChefDK) How to install chefDK in RHEL, Ubantu, Mac and Windows Chef Terminology and Definition Guide Example of Chef Recipe Program Top 10 Chef in-built…
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