Chef Infra Automation Commands
Chef Infra Automation Commands
Quick Command Guide reference:
knife bootstrap IPADDRESS(hostname) –sudo -x username -P password -N target1 (This installs chef-client and validates)
knife bootstrap WIN-I2R3V7Q9AFV –sudo -x username -P passwd -N nodename
Bootstrap Virtual box
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knife bootstrap 192.168.1.101 –ssh-user vasanth –ssh-password ‘vasanth123’ –sudo –use-sudo-password –node-name virtuenode
knife bootstrap x.x.x.x –ssh-user ubuntu –sudo –identity-file ./.chef/mykey.pem –run-list webserver
knife bootstrap 172.31.51.157 –ssh-user ec2-user –sudo –identity-file ./.chef/user.pem
knife bootstrap 172.31.51.157 –ssh-user ec2-user –sudo –identity-file “C:Usersuser.sshid_rsa”
knife bootstrap windows winrm ADDRESS –winrm-user USER –winrm-password ‘PASSWORD’ –node-name target3 –run-list ‘recipe[learn_chef_iis]’ –winrm-transport ssl –winrm-ssl-verify-mode verify_none
knife bootstrap windows winrm WIN-I2R3V7Q9AFV –winrm-user username –winrm-password ‘passwd’ –node-name target3 –run-list ‘recipe[learn_chef_iis]’ –winrm-transport ssl –winrm-ssl-verify-mode verify_none
knife cookbook create apache
knife cookbook upload apache
Login via putty and run “sudo chef-client”
knife node show target1
knife node show target1 -l
knife node show target1 -Fj
knife node show target1 -a fqdn
knife search node “*:*” -a fqdn
From workstation
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Using Chefdk
chef generate repo chef-repo
chef generate cookbook webserver
Installing and configuring kitchen
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Under your Chef local repo
gem install test-kitchen
gem install test-kitchen
kitchen init –create-gemfile / kitchen init –driver=kitchen-vagrant
kitchen –version
kitchen list
kitchen create default-ubuntu-1404
kitchen list
kitchen converge default-ubuntu-1404
kitchen login default-ubuntu-1404
kitchen verify default-ubuntu-1404
kitchen verify 64 (centos)
kitchen test default-ubuntu-1404
kitchen help
kitchen help init
kitchen destroy
gem install test-kitchen
kitchen init –create-gemfile / kitchen init –driver=kitchen-vagrant
kitchen –version
kitchen list
kitchen create default-ubuntu-1404
kitchen list
kitchen converge default-ubuntu-1404
kitchen login default-ubuntu-1404
kitchen verify default-ubuntu-1404
kitchen verify 64 (centos)
kitchen test default-ubuntu-1404
kitchen help
kitchen help init
kitchen destroy
Data bag
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knife data bag create databagname 1.x.x
Browsing the supermarket
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knife cookbook site list
knife cookbook site search mysql
knife cookbook site show mysql
knife cookbook site show mysql 0.10.0
knife cookbook site download mysql
knife cookbook site install mysql
knife -v
Uploading cookbooks to Supermarket
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knife cookbook site share “my_apache2_cookbook” “Web Servers”
Delete Node from Chef server
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knife node delete my_node (delete node in server)
knife node client my_node (delete client object in server)
Create Roles and environment
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subl roles/web_server.rb
knife role from file web_server.rb
knife node edit server
sudo chef-client
knife environment create book
knife environment list
knife node list
knife node list -E book
knife node edit my_server
knife node list -E book
knife environment edit book
