Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook - Second Edition电子书

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

Table of Contents

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Chef Infrastructure

Introduction

Using version control

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Installing the Chef development kit on your workstation

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using the hosted Chef platform

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing virtual machines with Vagrant

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating and using cookbooks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Inspecting files on your Chef server with knife

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Defining cookbook dependencies

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing cookbook dependencies with Berkshelf

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Downloading and integrating cookbooks as vendor branches into your Git repository

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using custom knife plugins

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Deleting a node from the Chef server

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Developing recipes with local mode

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Running knife in local mode

Moving to hosted Chef or your own Chef server

See also

Using roles

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using environments

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Freezing cookbooks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Running Chef client as a daemon

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using chef-shell

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

2. Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs

Introduction

Testing your Chef cookbooks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Flagging problems in your Chef cookbooks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Test-driven development for cookbooks using ChefSpec

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Integration testing your Chef cookbooks with Test Kitchen

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Showing affected nodes before uploading cookbooks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Overriding a node's run list to execute a single recipe

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using why-run mode to find out what a recipe might do

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Debugging Chef client runs

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Inspecting the results of your last Chef run

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Raising and logging exceptions in recipes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Diff-ing cookbooks with knife

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using community exception and report handlers

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating custom handlers

Getting ready...

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

3. Chef Language and Style

Introduction

Using community Chef style

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using attributes to dynamically configure recipes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Calculating values in the attribute files

See also

Using templates

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Mixing plain Ruby with Chef DSL

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Installing Ruby gems and using them in recipes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using libraries

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using definitions

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating your own Lightweight Resource Providers (LWRP)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Extending community cookbooks by using application wrapper cookbooks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating custom Ohai plugins

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating custom knife plugins

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

4. Writing Better Cookbooks

Introduction

Setting the environment variables

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Passing arguments to shell commands

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Overriding attributes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using search to find nodes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using knife to search for nodes

Searching for arbitrary node attributes

Using Boolean operators in search

See also

Using data bags

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using search to find data bag items

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using encrypted data bag items

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using a private key file

See also

Accessing data bag values from external scripts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Getting information about the environment

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Writing cross-platform cookbooks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Avoiding case statements to set values based on the platform

Declaring support for specific operating systems in your cookbook's metadata

See also

Finding the complete list of operating systems you can use in cookbooks

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Making recipes idempotent by using conditional execution

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

5. Working with Files and Packages

Introduction

Creating configuration files using templates

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using pure Ruby in templates for conditionals and iterations

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Installing packages from a third-party repository

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Installing software from source

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Running a command when a file is updated

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Distributing directory trees

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Cleaning up old files

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Distributing different files based on the target platform

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

6. Users and Applications

Introduction

Creating users from data bags

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Securing the Secure Shell Daemon (SSHD)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Enabling passwordless sudo

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing NTP

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing nginx

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating nginx virtual hosts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating MySQL databases and users

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing WordPress sites

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing Ruby on Rails applications

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing Varnish

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing your local workstation

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

7. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure

Introduction

Creating your infrastructure using Chef Provisioning

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating cookbooks from a running system with Blueprint

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Running the same command on many machines at once

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Setting up SNMP for external monitoring services

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Deploying a Nagios monitoring server

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Building high-availability services using heartbeat

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using HAProxy to load-balance multiple web servers

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using custom bootstrap scripts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing firewalls with iptables

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Managing fail2ban to ban malicious IP addresses

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing Amazon EC2 instances

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Loading your Chef infrastructure from a file with spiceweasel and knife

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Index