Assignment-1 Chef Intro by Dasari Sowmya

1)What is Chef?

Chef is a Deployment tool. It is used as a configuration management tool used to automate the infrastructure provisioning. It is developed in Ruby language. It is used for building blocks like recipe and cookbooks. It is used for managing servers, software and applications in-house and also in the cloud.

2)10 Advantages of chef?

Accelerating Software Delivery
Increasing Service Resiliency
Improving risk management
Accelerating cloud Adoption
Manage Datacenters
A streamlined IT operation workflow
Continuous delivery
Deploy and manage servers and applications
Automate tasks across numerous servers
Opensource

3)How to install Chef Workstation

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

chef

chef version

4) One example program for 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