Chef Cookstyle
- This helps in writing better chef infra cookbooks.
- Command :
cookstyle <path to cookbook> - Also apply necessary metadata as done in the class Refer Here
- Refer Here for the changes made.
Tomcat 9 Installation
- Now our cookbook located at Refer Here is properly tested and is eligible to upload to chef server.
- Now lets upload this cookbook using berks
Chef Supermarket
- Chef Supermarket is a platform where opensource community shares their cookbooks.
- We can use those cookbooks along with the recipes which we develop or use them straight away in the run_list.
- Refer Here for the supermarket website
- Lets try to install mysql on ubuntu 2004 using supermarket cookbook and lets also install java 11
- Lets try to find the mysql cookbook shared by community
- Refer Here for the documentation.
- When you use supermarket cookbooks, we need to ensure we read the documentation as we have to use the cookbook as developed by the third party
- Lets create a cookbook called as
springbootexample - Lets create a recipe for installing java called as java and create an attributes file default
- Now lets configure kitchen to create ubuntu20.04 in any cloud env (in this example i will be using aws )
- Refer Here for the initial set of changes
- Now we want to install mysql suing the supermarket cookbook Refer Here
- Add dependecny to your cookbook by adding the highlighted in the below image with depends in metadata.rb
- Now to download dependencies i.e mysql and its dependencies, berkshelf (berks) is a tool which can download the dependencies from supermarket.
- Lets install the dependencies by executing
berks install
- Generally when we use cookbooks from supermarket there are two kinds of usage
- Cookbooks which have custom resources developed
- Cookbooks where we need to include_recipe or add the recipe to run_list
- Refer Here for the changes done to add mysql installation using supermarket cookbook
- Lets try to add nginx installation using supermarket cookbook Refer Here.
- Refer Here for the nginx installation
- Refer Here for the changes.
Next Steps
- Using Roles
- Using Environments
- Using databags
- Setting Attributes
- Chef on Windows
- Installing our own chef server.
