notes: Simple Chef with Vagrant

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install Vagrant and Chef in Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install vagrant chef
 
$ chef-client -v
Chef: 10.12.0

install Knife

$ knife configure




$ edit ~/.chef/knife.rb




cookbook_path [ './site-cookbooks' ]
 

use Knife to create a Cookbook

$ knife cookbook create beer

** Creating cookbook beer
** Creating README for cookbook: beer
** Creating CHANGELOG for cookbook: beer
** Creating metadata for cookbook: beer




When the "beer" cookbook runs, it creates a file in /tmp




$ edit site-cookbooks/beer/recipes/default.rb

File.open('/tmp/beer.txt', 'w') {|f| f.write('tasty\n') }




Tell Vagrant to use Chef, and to run "beer" recipe

$ edit Vagrantfile

  config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
    chef.cookbooks_path = "site-cookbooks"
     chef.add_recipe "beer"

  end

Boot the VM, thus running chef-client and our beer recipe

$ vagrant up

Verify it worked

$ vagrant ssh -c 'cat /tmp/beer.txt'
tasty