What is Chef?

Chef in DevOps is an automation tool. It is a Configuration Management (CM) tool that lets you automate processes and tasks across numerous servers and other devices of an organization in simple steps. Such a framework is highly beneficial to a company.

10 Advantage of Chef?

• Automation of cloud server
• Managing servers with ease
• Deployment of servers at faster pace.
• Best consistency – all the machines have same cloud running.
• Scalability
• Speed and accuracy
• Integrating cloud technology
• Effective risk management
• Speed s/w delivery
• Best rectification factor

How to install Chef Workstation?

• Go the Chef workstation page
• signup into the page
• Click on the package for window/ Linux or any other version we want.
• After clicking on download, we will get a link.
• wget https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef-workstation/22.5.923/el/7/chef-workstation-22.5.923-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rpm -ivh chef-workstation-22.5.923-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• Copy this to the putty, download the packages of the chef.
• Workstation will be installed automatically
• use chef version command to find the version that is installed in your Linux.
• use which chef command to find the version.

One Example Program of Recipe?

vi first.rb

file ‘/opt/first.txt’

file ‘/opt/first.txt’ do
action :delete
end

file ‘/opt/content.txt’ do
content “This is my first program of chef”
mode 755
owner “root”
end

chef-apply first.rb