How to deploy chef cookbooks without chef server? – Answer is – Chef Solo
What is Chef Solo?
chef-solo is a command that executes Chef Infra Client in a way that does not require the Chef Infra Server to converge cookbooks. chef-solo uses Chef Infra Client’s Chef local mode, and does not support the following functionality present in Chef Infra Client / server configurations:
Centralized distribution of cookbooks
A centralized API that interacts with and integrates infrastructure components
Authentication or authorization
How Chef solo Works?
chef-solo supports two locations from which cookbooks can be run:
- A local directory.
- A URL at which a tar.gz archive is located.
Before running Chef-Solo on the local machine, one needs to install the following two files on the local machine.
- Solo.rb − This file tells Chef about where to find cookbooks, roles, and data bags.
- Node.json − This file sets the run list and any node-specific attribute, if required.
A small chef-solo example
Install chef
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> curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash
Check
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> chef-solo -v
Setup chef repository
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> wget http://github.com/opscode/chef-repo/tarball/master
> tar zxvf master
> mv opscode-chef-repo-f9d4b0c/ chef-repo
>ls chef-repo/
Create .chef directory inside chef-repo
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> mkdir chef-repo/.chef
Setup a local cookbook path
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> vi chef-repo/.chef/knife.rb
cookbook_path [ ‘/root/chef-repo/cookbooks’ ]
Create your first cookbook
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> knife cookbook create ntp
Writing your first recipe
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> vi chef-repo/cookbooks/ntp/recipes/default.rb
package ‘ntp’
Now configure your server using chef-solo
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> vi chef-repo/solo.rb
file_cache_path “/root/chef-solo”
cookbook_path “/root/chef-repo/cookbooks”
> vi node.json
{
“run_list”: [ “recipe[ntp]” ]
}
Ensure ntp is not installed
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> yum remove -y ntp
Use chef-solo to configure your server
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> chef-solo -c chef-repo/solo.rb -j chef-repo/node.json
Confirm ntp is installed
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> yum info ntp
Reference
- https://docs.chef.io/chef_solo/
- https://www.devopsschool.com/blog/difference-between-chef-infra-server-vs-chef-zero-vs-chef-solo/
- https://docs.chef.io/ctl_chef_solo/
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