Chef-Solo is an open source tool that runs locally and allows us to provision the guest machine using chef cookbooks without the complication of any chef client and server configuration.
In this post, we will learn to execute a simple recipe which will create a file with some content inside /tmp directory using chef cookbook recipe.
To start with, we will create a directory where all our chef related content resides and for me it’s chef-repository, as follows:
$ mkdir chef-repository
Next, we will configure Knife inside our chef-repository to create cookbooks and recipes, as follows:
$ cd chef-repository $ mkdir .chef $ echo "cookbook_path [ '/vagrant/chef-repository/cookbooks' ]" > .chef/knife.rb
/vagrant/chef-repository/cookbooks specified above refers the path to chef cookbooks.
Now, we will create our first cookbook using knife which will also create recipe with name default.rb for us with default content, as follows:
$ knife cookbook create mycookbook
Edit the content of cookbooks/mycookbook/recipes/default.rb to create the file with name default-file with given content inside /tmp directory as below:
file "/tmp/default-file" do content "It's file created by Chef Recipe" owner "root" group "root" mode 00600 end
Move to directory ‘cookbooks’ and create chef configuration file solo.rb:
$ echo "cookbook_path ['$PWD']" > solo.rb
Next, run the recipe we created using chef-solo., as follows:
$ chef-solo -c solo.rb -o mycookbook::default;
Running multiple recipes inside cookbook?
We can run multiple recipes using chef-solo –override-runlist and –json-attributes command line options as follows:
a. Using chef-solo –override-runlist
chef-solo -c solo.rb -o recipe[mycookbook::default],mycookbook::first
mycookbook::first refers to the recipe with name first.rb inside directory cookbooks/mycookbook/recipes/
b. Using chef-solo –json-attributes
Create a .json file with any name for me it’s recipes.json with content as:
{
"run_list": [
"recipe[mycookbook::default]",
"recipe[mycookbook::first]"
]
}Then execute below command from directory ‘cookbooks’:
sudo chef-solo -c solo.rb -j recipes.json
| Reference: | Executing Cookbooks with Chef-Solo from our SCG partner Arpit Aggarwal at the Arpit Aggarwal blog. |
