Chef. How to run scripts (recipes)

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Run Chef scripts locally

There are several options to run recipes:

• using chef-client with -z option
• using chef-apply
• using chef-solo

Before running Chef recipes on the machine, it should be prepared:

• install necessary software (ChefDK, etc)

Run recipes locally with chef-client -z

• run script

chef-client -z whatever.rb

• whatever.rb

file '/tmp/x.txt' do
  content 'hello world'
end

chef-client -z -j my.json

run with json config

chef-client -z -j my.json

• specify recipes to run in json file

• my.json

{
    "run_list": [ "recipe[base::default]" ]
}

run recipes from cookbook (--override-runlist)

• create cookbook 'base'

• put attributes for the node in json file

• config.json

{
    "attr1": "v1",
    "attr2": "v2"
}

• specify recipe using --override-runlist option

chef-client -z -j config.json --override-runlist "recipe[base::default]"

chef-apply

run:

chef-apply hello.rb

• hello.rb

file 'hello.txt' do
  content 'Welcome to Chef'
end

chef-solo

• solo.rb

file_cache_path "/root/chef-solo"
cookbook_path "/root/chef-repo/cookbooks"

• attr.json

{
  "run_list": [ "recipe[apt]", "recipe[phpapp]" ],
  "nginx": {"domainname": "mysite.com", "port": 80}
}

run

root@intro:~/chef-repo# 
chef-solo -c solo.rb -j attr.json

or specify recipe in command line:

chef-solo -c solo.rb -j attr.json -o apt

?? chef-solo -c solo.rb -j attr.json -o "recipe[apt]", "recipe[phpapp]"

== attributes in json ==