Chef workstation installation in Linux & AWS

Chef configuration management tool is a extensible and customizable solution that Chef workstation allows organizations to manage their enterprise IT infrastructure (laptop, desktop, server) through automation, regardless of operating system.

Table of content

• Chef Workstation Download
• Chef server installation
• Chef server architecture
• How do you create a recipe in Chef?
• Chef recipe modification
• How do you create package recipe in Chef?

Step 1: Chef Server Download

Follow the desire link to download chef server RPM packages.

Copy that chef server link and use wget command to download chef workstation on Linux system.

# wget https://example.rpm

Step 2 : Chef server installation

# yum install chef-workstation-22.10.1013-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

If, you want to check chef file are install or not use those command.

# which chef
# chef -v

# mkdir cookbooks
# cd cookbooks
# pwd

Step 3: Chef server architecture

Chef generate command help of create a category cookbook for example web-cookbook, create-cookbook that can hold multiple recipes which you can segregate accordingly your requirement.

# chef generate cookbook create_cookbook

Use those command for showing status. If “tree” command is not working then, you should install ” yum install tree” command

# ls
# tree

Step 4: How do you create a recipe in Chef?

# chef generate recipe file_creat_recipe

use “tree” command for showing created recipe and “cd ..” command to one step back of directory path.

# tree
# cd ..

Use this command to entry on you recipe
Note: you must be add .rd of you recipe extension

# vi creat_cookbook/recipes/file_creat_recipe.rb
———————————–
file ‘/myfile’ do
content ‘welcome to my new chef blog’
action :create
end

Use “chef exec” troubleshoot command to check file systax

# chef exec ruby -c creat_cookbook/recipes/file_creat_recipe.rb

Use this command for client call for apply this recipe of the system

# chef-client -zr “recipe[creat_cookbook::file_creat_recipe]”

Step 5: Chef recipe modification

# vi creat_cookbook/recipes/file_creat_recipe.rb
# chef exec ruby -c creat_cookbook/recipes/file_creat_recipe.rb
# chef-client -zr “recipe[creat_cookbook::file_creat_recipe]”
——————————————
file ‘/myfile’ do
content ‘welcome to my new chef blog’
action :create
owner ‘ec2-user’
group ‘ec2-user’
end

Step 6: How do you create package recipe in Chef?

Follow, the instauration to install httpd package

# vi web_cookbook/recipes/apache_recipe.rb
# chef exec ruby -c web_cookbook/recipes/apache_recipe.rb
# chef-client -zr “recipe[web_cookbook::apache_recipe]”
——————————————
package ‘httpd’ do
action :install
end

file ‘/var/www/html/index.html’ do
content ‘welcome to my chef workstation blog’
action :create
end

service ‘httpd’ do
action [:enable, :start]
end

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