Planning and Installing Chef
Planning for Chef
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Module Overview
- Traditional per-machine management (e.g. RDP/SSH,WinRM)
- On-premises infrastructure expands. Management overhead increases
- Infrastructure expands to incorporate cloud services
- Traditional per-machine management does not Scale. Time wasted. Business loses agility
Idempotent
Denoting an element of a set which is unchanged in value when multiplied or otherwise operated on by itself
Hosted Chef or Chef Server?
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Sign up for Hosted Chef
Create a new Hosted Chef account
Access the Chef Management Console
How Chef Works
Chef Server Components
Module Summary
Traditional server management doesn't scale well
Infrastructure-as-code lets us scale easily
Chef lets us declare a desired end-state
We know how Chef Server works
We know the core components of Chef
Installing Chef
Module Overview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-install-configure/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/xplat-cli-install/
Assumed Prerequisites
- Microsoft Azure trial account
- Windows: Azure PowerShell (WebPI)
- Ubuntu: Azure CLI (nodejs-Iegacy & npm)
Prepare the Lab Environment
Create Azure AD admin account
Access deployment resources
Deploy Chef Environment
Download & Install Chef Server
Download & Install Chef Server
Download Chef Server to Azure VM
Install and Configure Chef Server
Install & Configure Chef Management Console
Install Chef Management Console
Install Management Console from Chef Server
Reconfigure Chef Server
Configure Management Console
Connect to Management Console
Install & Configure Chef Reporting
Install Chef Reporting
Install Reporting from Chef Server
Reconfigure Chef Server
Configure Reporting feature
Module Summary
Build a lab environment in Azure
Install Chef Server on Ubuntu
Install & configure Management Console
Install & configure Reporting feature
Configuring the Chef Workstation
Module Overview
Install Chef Development Kit
Install Git
Download and Install ChefDk
Configure shell Environment
Configure ChefDk
Download Chef Lab Starter Kit
Download SSL certificates
Verify ChefDK
Start Using ChefDK
Explore ChefDK
Create a basic Chef Cookbook
Create a basic Chef Receipe
Upload to Chef-Server
Module Summary
Configure workstation with ChefDK
Create first Chef repository
Connect to chef-server
Upload cookbook to chef-server
Bootstrapping Chef Nodes
Module Overview
Deploy Client Servers
Deploy Ubuntu Server client
Deploy Windows Server client
Verify connectivity to chef-server
Bootstrap Clients
Bootstrap Linux client
Bootstrap Windows client
Verify Chef client connectivity
Perform a Chef Client Run
Trigger a Chef client run
Monitor the client run
Examine the client run results
Configure Clients with Chef Recipes
Assign clients to roles
Trigger client run
Verify successful runlist execution
Check the results!
Module Summary
Provision client servers
Bootstrap clients
Execute client run
Configure clients with Chef cookbooks
Course Summary
Built a lab using Azure Resource Manager
Installed Chef Server from scratch
Installed ChefDK
Wrote recipes and cookbooks
Provisioned & bootstrapped Chef clients
Configured clients using Chef
Questions !!
