DevOps Classroom Series – 07/Dec/2019

Chef Server Installation

• Create a t2.large ubuntu machine in AWS.
• Installation Steps are referred from here
• The current mode of installation is Standalone. Version used in this documentation is 13.1.13
• Package used is downloaded from https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef-server/13.1.13/ubuntu/18.04/chef-server-core_13.1.13-1_amd64.deb
• Login into ec2 instance.

cd /tmp
wget  https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef-server/13.1.13/ubuntu/18.04/chef-server-core_13.1.13-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/chef-server-core_13.1.13-1_amd64.deb
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure

• Create an administrator and organization. In this series the following will be the assumed info

USERNAME shaikkhajaibrahim
FIRSTNAME khaja
LASTNAME ibrahim
EMAIL qtdevops@gmail.com
PASSWORD 'india@123'

ORG NAME DIRECT DEVOPS

• The command to create user is sudo chef-server-ctl user-create USER_NAME FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME EMAIL 'PASSWORD' --filename FILE_NAME and now i fill it with above info

sudo chef-server-ctl user-create shaikkhajaibrahim khaja ibrahim qtdevops@gmail.com 'india@123' --filename /home/ubuntu/shaikkhajaibrahim.pem

• To create an organization command is “` sudo chef-server-ctl org-create short_name ‘full_organization_name’ –association_user user_name –filename ORGANIZATION-validator.pem“ and now lets fill with above info

sudo chef-server-ctl org-create directdevops 'DIRECT DEVOPS' --association_user shaikkhajaibrahim --filename /home/ubuntu/directdevops-validator.pem

• Access the url https://<publicip>. On error click on advanced an go to <public ip>
• Log in to the Ubuntu machine and execute the following commands

sudo chef-server-ctl install chef-manage 
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure
sudo chef-manage-ctl reconfigure

• Once this is done, chef server is exactly like hosted chef. in this case whenever you are executing knife commands do add –node-ssl-verify-mode none during bootstrap. you might need add ssl exceptions
• Two other addons can be added

opscode-reporting
opscode-pushjobs

Chef Points for Professional Summary & Roles

• Hands on Experience in Developing and testing chef cookbooks
• Deployed configurations to various environmets using Chef.
• Manged multiple nodes and frequent changes using chef
• Created reusable chef cookbooks and hands on experience in using and fine-tuning chef supermarket cookbooks
• Use chef as a provisioner in Terraform and Packer.
• Use Chef Extension on Azure VMs to deploy Configurations.