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chake-chef - configure chake nodes with chef-solo

This configuration manager will allow you to manage nodes by running chef-solo(1) on each remote node.

When chake init runs, the following chef-specific files will be created:

A brief explanation of the created files that are specific to chef:

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config.rb: contains the chef-solo configuration. You can modify it, but usually you won't need to.
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config/roles: directory is where you can put your role definitions.
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cookbooks: directory where you will store your cookbooks. A sample cookbook called "basics" is created, but feel free to remove it and add actual cookbooks.

Nodes can be configured to be managed with chef by having a run_list key in their configuration:

host1.mycompany.com:
  run_list:
    - role[server]
    - recipe[service1]
  service1:
    option1: "here we go"

Any extra configuration under host1.mycompany.com will be saved to a JSON file and given to the chef-solo --node-json option in the command line. For example, the above configuration will produce a JSON file that looks like this:

{
  "run_list": [
    "role[server]",
    "recipe[service1]"
  ]
  ,
  "service1": {
    "option1": "here we go"
  }
}

Inside Chef recipes, you can access those values by using the node object. For example:

template "/etc/service1.conf.d/option1.conf" do
  variables option1: node["option1"]
end

The bootstrap process for chef involves getting chef-solo installed. The node hostname will also be set based on the hostname informed in the configuration file.

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chake(1)
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https://docs.chef.io/
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https://docs.chef.io/chef_solo.html

December 2023