Chef：Powerful Infrastructure Automation

Appendix A. Bibliography

Summary

How to use Chef Provisioning

What is Chef provisioning?

Chapter 8. Using Chef Provisioning

Summary

Integration testing with Kitchen and ServerSpec

Unit testing with ChefSpec

Analyzing cookbooks with Foodcritic

Analyzing cookbooks with RuboCop

Chapter 7. Test-Driven Development

Summary

Provisioning containers in Docker

Looking at an honorable mention – Linode

Provisioning in the Google Cloud platform

Provisioning Microsoft Azure instances

Provisioning AWS EC2 instances

Chapter 6. Provisioning in the Cloud

Summary

Network automation

OpenStack provisioning

VMware provisioning

Chapter 5. Provisioning in the Traditional Data Center

Summary

Subclassing a Custom Resource

Making a Custom Resource more reusable

Creating and using a Custom Resource

Creating an example use case

Out with the old (LWRPs) in with the new (Custom Resources)

Chapter 4. Custom Resources

Summary

Exploring policies

Learning the attribute precedence hierarchy

Using Chef organizations

Using Chef environments

Using Chef roles

Chapter 3. Leveraging Roles Environments and Policies

Summary

Creating new Knife plugins

Knife EC2 plugin

Knife Windows plugin

Knife to editor integration

Knife subcommands

Knife help

Chapter 2. Knife Tooling and Plugins

Summary

What is chef-apply?

What else do you need?

Setting up a standard Chef repo

Installing Chef Development Kit

Exploring the Chef Development Kit

Filling in the gaps in your Chef knowledge base

Re-introducing Chef

Chapter 1. Setting Up a Development Environment on Your Workstation

Part 3. Module 3

Loading your Chef infrastructure from a file with spiceweasel and knife

Managing Amazon EC2 instances

Managing fail2ban to ban malicious IP addresses

Managing firewalls with iptables

Using custom bootstrap scripts

Using HAProxy to load-balance multiple web servers

Building high-availability services using heartbeat

Deploying a Nagios monitoring server

Setting up SNMP for external monitoring services

Running the same command on many machines at once

Creating cookbooks from a running system with Blueprint

Creating your infrastructure using Chef Provisioning

Introduction

Chapter 7. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure

Managing your local workstation

Managing Varnish

Managing Ruby on Rails applications

Managing WordPress sites

Creating MySQL databases and users

Creating nginx virtual hosts

Managing nginx

Managing NTP

Enabling passwordless sudo

Securing the Secure Shell Daemon (SSHD)

Creating users from data bags

Introduction

Chapter 6. Users and Applications

Distributing different files based on the target platform

Cleaning up old files

Distributing directory trees

Running a command when a file is updated

Installing software from source

Installing packages from a third-party repository

Using pure Ruby in templates for conditionals and iterations

Creating configuration files using templates

Introduction

Chapter 5. Working with Files and Packages

Making recipes idempotent by using conditional execution

Finding the complete list of operating systems you can use in cookbooks

Writing cross-platform cookbooks

Getting information about the environment

Accessing data bag values from external scripts

Using encrypted data bag items

Using search to find data bag items

Using data bags

Using search to find nodes

Overriding attributes

Passing arguments to shell commands

Setting the environment variables

Introduction

Chapter 4. Writing Better Cookbooks

Creating custom knife plugins

Creating custom Ohai plugins

Extending community cookbooks by using application wrapper cookbooks

Creating your own Lightweight Resource Providers (LWRP)

Using definitions

Using libraries

Installing Ruby gems and using them in recipes

Mixing plain Ruby with Chef DSL

Using templates

Using attributes to dynamically configure recipes

Using community Chef style

Introduction

Chapter 3. Chef Language and Style

Creating custom handlers

Using community exception and report handlers

Diff-ing cookbooks with knife

Raising and logging exceptions in recipes

Inspecting the results of your last Chef run

Debugging Chef client runs

Using why-run mode to find out what a recipe might do

Overriding a node's run list to execute a single recipe

Showing affected nodes before uploading cookbooks

Integration testing your Chef cookbooks with Test Kitchen

Test-driven development for cookbooks using ChefSpec

Flagging problems in your Chef cookbooks

Testing your Chef cookbooks

Introduction

Chapter 2. Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs

Using chef-shell

Running Chef client as a daemon

Freezing cookbooks

Using environments

Using roles

Developing recipes with local mode

Deleting a node from the Chef server

Using custom knife plugins

Downloading and integrating cookbooks as vendor branches into your Git repository

Managing cookbook dependencies with Berkshelf

Defining cookbook dependencies

Inspecting files on your Chef server with knife

Creating and using cookbooks

Managing virtual machines with Vagrant

Using the hosted Chef platform

Installing the Chef development kit on your workstation

Using version control

Introduction

Chapter 1. Chef Infrastructure

Part 2. Module 2

Summary

Automation and integration

Extending Chef

Integration testing

Getting to know the Chef shell

Vagrant and Chef-solo

Chapter 8. Extras You Need to Know

Summary

Working with data bags

Writing custom extensions

Managing users

Chapter 7. Beyond Basic Recipes and Cookbooks

Summary

Deploying your software

Configuring the web server

Provisioning EC2 instances

Adding users

Defining roles

Managing the cookbooks

Modeling a simple Python application

Configuring your local environment

Deploying software with Chef

Describing the setup

Chapter 6. From Development to Deployment

Summary

Getting started with ChefSpec

RSpec and ChefSpec

RSpec

Testing recipes

Chapter 5. Testing Your Recipes

Summary

Writing recipes

Recipes

Definitions

Templates

Resources

Recipes

Metadata

Attributes

Chapter 4. Working with Cookbooks

Summary

Leveraging the cloud

Chapter 3. Integrating with the Cloud

Summary

Large-scale infrastructure

Organizing your configuration data

Modeling your infrastructure

Getting to know Chef

Chapter 2. Modeling Your Infrastructure

Summary

Validating that your service is working

Configuring a Chef server

Installing a Chef server

Working with Chef

Terminology

Chapter 1. Installing Chef

Part 1. Module 1

Customer support

Reader feedback

Who this learning path is for

What you need for this learning path

What this learning path covers

Preface

Credits

Chef: Powerful Infrastructure Automation

coverpage

coverpage

Chef: Powerful Infrastructure Automation

Credits

Preface

What this learning path covers

What you need for this learning path

Who this learning path is for

Reader feedback

Customer support

Part 1. Module 1

Chapter 1. Installing Chef

Terminology

Working with Chef

Installing a Chef server

Configuring a Chef server

Validating that your service is working

Summary

Chapter 2. Modeling Your Infrastructure

Getting to know Chef

Modeling your infrastructure

Organizing your configuration data

Large-scale infrastructure

Summary

Chapter 3. Integrating with the Cloud

Leveraging the cloud

Summary

Chapter 4. Working with Cookbooks

Attributes

Metadata

Recipes

Resources

Templates

Definitions

Recipes

Writing recipes

Summary

Chapter 5. Testing Your Recipes

Testing recipes

RSpec

RSpec and ChefSpec

Getting started with ChefSpec

Summary

Chapter 6. From Development to Deployment

Describing the setup

Deploying software with Chef

Configuring your local environment

Modeling a simple Python application

Managing the cookbooks

Defining roles

Adding users

Provisioning EC2 instances

Configuring the web server

Deploying your software

Summary

Chapter 7. Beyond Basic Recipes and Cookbooks

Managing users

Writing custom extensions

Working with data bags

Summary

Chapter 8. Extras You Need to Know

Vagrant and Chef-solo

Getting to know the Chef shell

Integration testing

Extending Chef

Automation and integration

Summary

Part 2. Module 2

Chapter 1. Chef Infrastructure

Introduction

Using version control

Installing the Chef development kit on your workstation

Using the hosted Chef platform

Managing virtual machines with Vagrant

Creating and using cookbooks

Inspecting files on your Chef server with knife

Defining cookbook dependencies

Managing cookbook dependencies with Berkshelf

Downloading and integrating cookbooks as vendor branches into your Git repository

Using custom knife plugins

Deleting a node from the Chef server

Developing recipes with local mode

Using roles

Using environments

Freezing cookbooks

Running Chef client as a daemon

Using chef-shell

Chapter 2. Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs

Introduction

Testing your Chef cookbooks

Flagging problems in your Chef cookbooks

Test-driven development for cookbooks using ChefSpec

Integration testing your Chef cookbooks with Test Kitchen

Showing affected nodes before uploading cookbooks

Overriding a node's run list to execute a single recipe

Using why-run mode to find out what a recipe might do

Debugging Chef client runs

Inspecting the results of your last Chef run

Raising and logging exceptions in recipes

Diff-ing cookbooks with knife

Using community exception and report handlers

Creating custom handlers

Chapter 3. Chef Language and Style

Introduction

Using community Chef style

Using attributes to dynamically configure recipes

Using templates

Mixing plain Ruby with Chef DSL

Installing Ruby gems and using them in recipes

Using libraries

Using definitions

Creating your own Lightweight Resource Providers (LWRP)

Extending community cookbooks by using application wrapper cookbooks

Creating custom Ohai plugins

Creating custom knife plugins

Chapter 4. Writing Better Cookbooks

Introduction

Setting the environment variables

Passing arguments to shell commands

Overriding attributes

Using search to find nodes

Using data bags

Using search to find data bag items

Using encrypted data bag items

Accessing data bag values from external scripts

Getting information about the environment

Writing cross-platform cookbooks

Finding the complete list of operating systems you can use in cookbooks

Making recipes idempotent by using conditional execution

Chapter 5. Working with Files and Packages

Introduction

Creating configuration files using templates

Using pure Ruby in templates for conditionals and iterations

Installing packages from a third-party repository

Installing software from source

Running a command when a file is updated

Distributing directory trees

Cleaning up old files

Distributing different files based on the target platform

Chapter 6. Users and Applications

Introduction

Creating users from data bags

Securing the Secure Shell Daemon (SSHD)

Enabling passwordless sudo

Managing NTP

Managing nginx

Creating nginx virtual hosts

Creating MySQL databases and users

Managing WordPress sites

Managing Ruby on Rails applications

Managing Varnish

Managing your local workstation

Chapter 7. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure

Introduction

Creating your infrastructure using Chef Provisioning

Creating cookbooks from a running system with Blueprint

Running the same command on many machines at once

Setting up SNMP for external monitoring services

Deploying a Nagios monitoring server

Building high-availability services using heartbeat

Using HAProxy to load-balance multiple web servers

Using custom bootstrap scripts

Managing firewalls with iptables

Managing fail2ban to ban malicious IP addresses

Managing Amazon EC2 instances

Loading your Chef infrastructure from a file with spiceweasel and knife

Part 3. Module 3

Chapter 1. Setting Up a Development Environment on Your Workstation

Re-introducing Chef

Filling in the gaps in your Chef knowledge base

Exploring the Chef Development Kit

Installing Chef Development Kit

Setting up a standard Chef repo

What else do you need?

What is chef-apply?

Summary

Chapter 2. Knife Tooling and Plugins

Knife help

Knife subcommands

Knife to editor integration

Knife Windows plugin

Knife EC2 plugin

Creating new Knife plugins

Summary

Chapter 3. Leveraging Roles Environments and Policies

Using Chef roles

Using Chef environments

Using Chef organizations

Learning the attribute precedence hierarchy

Exploring policies

Summary

Chapter 4. Custom Resources

Out with the old (LWRPs) in with the new (Custom Resources)

Creating an example use case

Creating and using a Custom Resource

Making a Custom Resource more reusable

Subclassing a Custom Resource

Summary

Chapter 5. Provisioning in the Traditional Data Center

VMware provisioning

OpenStack provisioning

Network automation

Summary

Chapter 6. Provisioning in the Cloud

Provisioning AWS EC2 instances

Provisioning Microsoft Azure instances

Provisioning in the Google Cloud platform

Looking at an honorable mention – Linode

Provisioning containers in Docker

Summary

Chapter 7. Test-Driven Development

Analyzing cookbooks with RuboCop

Analyzing cookbooks with Foodcritic

Unit testing with ChefSpec

Integration testing with Kitchen and ServerSpec

Summary

Chapter 8. Using Chef Provisioning

What is Chef provisioning?

How to use Chef Provisioning

Summary

Appendix A. Bibliography