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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