A Complete Chef Infrastructure on Your Laptop

 

tl;dr

An automated setup of a Chef infrastructure ready to develop on.

Can be used to:

• Develop cookbooks offline
• Train users in Chef
• Simulate Chef ‘search’ code (the original impetus)
• Test cookbooks

Known to work on Mac and Linux.

Requires:

• Vagrant

• Virtualbox

• Vagrant landrush plugin vagrant plugin install landrush

• ShutIt – [sudo] pip install shutit

Video

Here’s a video of it running on my Mac:

 

 

Install

To run:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit-chef-env
cd shutit-chef-env
./run.sh

and eventually you’ll be handed a terminal with this message:

********************************************************************************

You are on the host.

The chef node is chefnode1.vagrant.test

The chef workstation is chefworkstation.vagrant.test

The chef server is chefserver.vagrant.test

********************************************************************************

and you can vagrant ssh into any .one of the boxes and do your worst.

If you re-run ./run.sh you will destroy the existing machines and they will be rebuilt.

By default a vagrant snapshot is performed on completion.

Code

The code for this is here.

Questions/requests?

Ask me on twitter: @ianmiell

 

 

This is based on work in progress from the second edition of Docker in Practice 

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