Chef Templates
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Refer Here for the official documentation
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Chef templates is an Embedded ruby template (ERB) so in files we can have dynamic content
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Lets try to create a template
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Dynamic expressions in embedded ruby should be
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When we try to copy the template using template resource, the file will evaluated all the expression in
<%= %>will be replaced by its dynamic values. Refer Here for the template resource -
Refer Here for the changeset
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Now lets generate tomcat-users file template
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Refer Here for the changeset containing all of the steps to install tomcat9 as per documentation Refer Here
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Now lets also add support for centos 7
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Lets try to use the test kitchen with Azure Refer Here for the documentation
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Lets get image urn for centos 7
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Search for ubuntu 20 urn by executing the following command in Azure CLI
az vm image list -f UbuntuServer --all --output table& the other command which we triedaz vm image list -p canonical -o table --all | grep 20_04-lts | grep -v gen2 -
Fix for the issue observed in the class add the ssh_key path in transport in kitchen.yml file
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Now execute the kitchen commands
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Azure Ubuntu 20.04 VM from test kitchen
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Azure Centos 7 VM from test kitchen
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In the changeset which i’m commiting i have removed subscription id for security reasons. Refer Here for the changeset
