Day 5 . Assignment 1 # Chef Introduction

Chef

Chef is a configuration management technology used to automate the infrastructure provisioning. It is developed on the basis of Ruby DSL language. It is used to streamline the task of configuration and managing the company’s server. It has the capability to get integrated with any of the cloud technology . The chef has working with cookbooks and recipes

10 Advantage of Chef

Accelerating Software Delivery.
Increasing Service Resiliency.
Improving Risk Management.
Accelerating Cloud Adoption.
Managing Both Data Center and Cloud Environments.
Delivering All Your Infrastructure – Any App, Everywhere, Continuously.
Final Thoughts.
Consistency and Scalability
Faster Deployement and Reduced Risks
Integrates with Any Cloud Technology

How to install Chef Workstation

Go the Chef workstation 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
Copy this to the putty, server and download the packages of the chef.
Workstation will be installed

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