Chef

  • Chef is a configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang

• Was written to manage Linux but later versions also support Microsoft Windows

• In February 2013, Opscode released version 11 of Chef

• It uses a pure-Ruby to write system configuration "recipes"

• Integrates with cloud-based platforms such as Internap, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack, SoftLayer, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace

• Support for includes AIX, RHEL/CentOS, FreeBSD, OS X, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Ubuntu platforms

• Additional client platforms supported include Arch Linux, Debian and Fedora

• Chef Server can be on RHEL/CentOS, Oracle Linux, and Ubuntu

• Chef can run in client/server mode or standalone configuration named "chef-solo"


Chef Architecture

• Chef Development Kit has tools to develop and test your infrastructure automation code

• Infrastructure as code automation code is developed locally on workstation and then deployed in production

• Chef Server is a central repository for Chef cookbooks and have information about every node being managed

• Chef client runs on each node and securely communicates with the Chef server to get the latest configuration instructions for that node

• Chef cookbooks have code for desired state of infrastructure

• Chef node is a physical machine or virtual machine in network being managed by the Chef server




We will define the following in context of Chef:

• Server
• Node
• Resource
• Recipe
• Cookbook
• Run List
• Roles
• Search

Chef Organization

• An organization is the top-level entity for role-based access control in the Chef server
• Each organization contains the default groups (admins, clients, and users, plus billing_admins for the hosted Chef server), at least one user and at least one node (on which the chef-client is installed)
• The Chef server supports multiple organizations
• Organizations are completely independent tenants of Enterprise Chef
• Share nothing with other organizations
• May represent different
• Companies
• Business units
• Departments

Chef Node

• Nodes represent the servers in your infrastructure
• Could be physical servers or virtual servers
• May represent hardware that you own or compute instances in a public or private cloud
• Could also be network hardware – switches, routers etc.

Chef Resources

• A Resource represents a piece of the system and its desired state
• A package that should be installed
• A service that should be running
• A file that should be generated
• A cron job that should be configured
• A user that should be managed
• And more

Chef Recipe

• Configuration files that describe the resource and their desired state

• Recipes can :

Install and configure software components
Mange files
Deploy applications
Execute other recipes
And more

Chef Cookbooks

• Recipes are stored in Cookbooks
• Cookbooks contain recipes, templates, files, custom resources, etc
• Code re-use and modularity

Chef Run List

• A run-list defines all of the information necessary for Chef to configure a node into the desired state
• A run-list is:
• An ordered list of roles and/or recipes that are run in the exact order defined in the run-list; if a recipe appears more than once in the run-list, the chef-client will not run it twice
• Always specific to the node on which it runs; nodes may have a run-list that is identical to the run-list used by other nodes
• Stored as part of the node object on the Chef server
• Maintained using knife and then uploaded from the workstation to the Chef server, or maintained using Chef Automate

Chef Roles

• A role is a way to define certain patterns and processes that exist across nodes in an organization as belonging to a single job function
• Each role consists of zero (or more) attributes and a run-list
• Each node can have zero (or more) roles assigned to it
• When a role is run against a node, the configuration details of that node are compared against the attributes of the role, and then the contents of that role’s run-list are applied to the node’s configuration details
• When a chef-client runs, it merges its own attributes and run-lists with those contained within each assigned role

Roles represent the types of server in your infrastructure

• Load Balancer
• Application Server
• Database Cache
• Database
• Monitoring


learn more about chef here :

Installation on Node

CookBook

Knife


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