This repository demonstrates using chef solo to configure a windows host. Chef infra client is an agent that runs locally on every node that is under management by chef infra. Contribute to karmichefsolohelloworld development by creating an account on github. Be sure to increase the resolution to at least 720p and increase the video size so you can see the terminal window. Chef solo setup chef solo is an open source tool that runs locally and allows to provision guest machines using chef cookbooks without the complication of any chef client and s. Chef cookbook to install nginx with chef solo on linux. Chef is an it infrastructure automation software, which can be used to manage all your servers and network equipments in your organization. The chefdk contains all the tools you need to develop and test your infrastructure, built by the awesome chef community. Executing cookbooks with chefsolo arpit aggarwal blog. Chefsolo tasks this section lists all of the bigfix lifecycle server automation chefsolo tasks and provides a description of each task. I think it is safe to say that if you are a developer, you probably hate programming in windows. Nodes are configured using winrm, which allows external applications to call native objects like batch scripts, windows powershell scripts, or scripting library variables. Extended support for windows server 2008 r2 ended on january 14, 2020. If all you want is to set up and maintain a single vm.
Setting this to windows will cause the provisioner to use windows friendly paths and. Chef inspec is an infrastructure security and compliance testing framework with a human and machinereadable language for comparing actual versus desired system state. Cookbooks can be uploaded from your local machine to the remote machine or remote paths can be used. Net frameworks and many other important components for. Additional information about our licenses can be found here. A windows feature is an optional part of the operating system that you can download and includes things like iis. Chef doesnt directly integrate with berkshelf, so chefsolo knows nothing about that. The paths on that page are specific to unix, but you should be able to adapt them to the appropriate places for your windows system. This lab will get you up and running with chef solo and help you configure a local windows host on aws using chef. The chef documentation assumes you have an entire server farm to manage, so it hits you with a lot of complexity. Visit the chef workstation downloads page and select the appropriate package for your windows version. Using chef allows us to add new servers confidently and quickly.
Install the chef client it is only available as an. Chef solo is ideal for people who are already experienced with chef, already have chef cookbooks, or are looking to learn chef. Install the chefclient on microsoft windows chef singlepage topics. Wherever you are in your migration efforts for windows server 2008 r2, chef can help you get there faster and improve longterm manageability of the applications. Installing chef solo on a windows server stack overflow. Besides, im using chef solo, and i need to manually install some things on the machine before running the script, which is not very practical. You need a chef workstation when you want to interact with the chef server, or any physical nodes servers, network equipments, etc. Today i decided to take a look at chef you know, this infrastructureascode stuff and see what it can do for me. You can download several from the chef community site that already work with windows. When chef infra client runs, it will bring the node into the expected state and prevent configuration drift. Chef server vs chef solo duplicate ask question asked 6 years. Lets say you are working with chef, and you realize that you need to start building a recipe of your own. In this lab, you will gain experience with each of those concepts as you configure a linux virtual machine in aws using chef solo.
A microsoft installer package msi is available for installing chef infra client on a microsoft windows machine from chef downloads. Using chef solo on windows for azure cloud academy. If you are running that version of the chefclient or later, you should consider using local mode instead of using chefsolo. The knife windows subcommand supports ntlm and kerberos methods of authentication. On certain platforms, and after a file has been moved into place, chef infra client may modify file permissions to support features specific to those platforms. The windows cookbook provided by opscode the company behind chef provides a lot of great windows specific resources. However, these images can accumulate in size, and if you have a separate disk to where you want to download your boxes, you can set a windows system environment variable as. By using the knife windows plugin to bootstrap the chefclient. Sadly, installing a standalone version chef solo on a windows box is not that simple, even if there are some instructions available. It has builtin support for windows and a thriving community providing convenient cookbooks for managing windows configurations. Short demo of using chef solo to install java and tomcat 7 on an ec2 server.
Chef workstation gives you everything you need to get started with chef infra and chef inspec ad hoc remote execution, remote scanning, configuration tasks, cookbook creation tools as well as robust dependency and testing software all in one easytoinstall package. Chefsolo is an open source tool that runs locally and allows us to provision the guest machine using chef cookbooks without the complication of any chef client and server configuration. In this post, we will learn to execute a simple recipe which will create a file with some content inside tmp directory using chef cookbook recipe. The knife windows subcommand is used to interact with windows systems managed by chef infra. For example, you download the knife command as part of the chef workstation, but you run knife commands from your workstation to manage. To set up your windows workstation follow the steps on chef for microsoft windows. By downloading the chefclient to the target node, and then running the microsoft installer package msi locally. Chef workstation gives you everything you need to get started with chef ad hoc remote execution, remote scanning, configuration tasks, cookbook creation tools as well as robust dependency and testing software all in one easytoinstall package. By downloading chef infra client to the target node, and then running the microsoft installer package msi locally. Now, when you run berks install, the apt cookbook will be downloaded from supermarket into the cache. This task downloads a cookbook from the opscode community site and adds it to the chefsolo repository on the target computer.
Follow the steps to accept the license and install chef workstation. On platforms with selinux enabled, chef infra client will fix up the security contexts after a file has been moved into the correct location by running the restorecon command. Sadly, installing a standalone version chef solo on a windows box is. Chef solo brings most of the benefits of chef to a single server. Install chefsolo create a simple cookbookrecipe and run it. This lab will get you up and running with chef solo and help you configure a local windows host on azure using chef. Chef solo config for management servers with rubyrack based applications. Chef workstation gives you everything you need to get started with chef infra and chef inspec ad hoc remote execution, remote scanning, configuration tasks. There are hundreds of organisations worldwide with their legacy applications. Our supported versions page lists which product versions are governed by the new license. When chef infra client runs, performs all of the steps required for bringing a node into the expected state.
Using chef on windows is easier than you think postmark. Chef is telling you that it cant find the cookbooks. Install the chefclient on microsoft windows chef single. The actual command that is run by the default bootstrap script is. The chefsolo packer provisioner installs and configures software on. Demonstrate using chef solo to configure a windows host. The most obvious way to go about this is add the recipe to one of your cookbooks and run chef, watching the output. Running a chef cookbook using chefsolo chandrakala medium. The bootstrap script will also download all required resources cookbooks, node.
The chefsolo installation and chefsolo cookbooks are downloaded from the opscode community web site. Quickstart configure a windows virtual machine in azure using chef. I walk you stepbystep through deploying onto a fresh server image. Virtualbox go to and download and install the latest windows virtualbox package. Chef solo setup chefsolo is an open source tool that runs locally and allows to provision guest machines using chef cookbooks without the complication of any chef client and s. Chef supplied resources available to customers still running windows server 2008 r2 include. The chefclient includes an option called local mode localmode or z, which runs the chefclient against the chefrepo on the local machine as if it were running against a chef server. Specifically, this documentation page will not go into how to use chef or how to write chef cookbooks, since chef is a complete system that is beyond the scope of a.
Devops devsecops chef and kubernetes chef and azure chef and vmware. Normally you would use something like knifesolo which ties them together, but you could also do it manually. The actual cookbooks in the location specified in the solo. Get unlimited access to the best stories on medium and support writers while youre at it. This task installs chefsolo on a microsoft windows target computer and creates the chefsolo repository in a location that you specify.
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