I want to change my attribute value dynamically during run time . Ex. attribute:foo: ‘Hello’Now I want to change value of key ‘foo’ to ‘World’. So is there any way to do that?Please help.

Is there a way I can use Chef Workstation to create droplets?I’ve found and tried to install digital_ocean knife plugin but I got an error (I also read that plugin isn’t supported anymore)So, is there another recommen...

This tutorial will walk you through the process of automating server provisioning using Chef, a powerful configuration management tool that leverages the Ruby programming language to automate infrastructure administra...

TLDR; I want to manage and configure multiple LEMP stacks with Terraform and Chef/Ansible to host WordPress sites without losing the data when a droplet is destroyed. Here are the questions that I am looking to have a...

Hello, I am making an eCommerce solution utilising django and docker. I want to know the best routes to best utilise docker with digitalocean and how to avoid all draw backs. I want to make a complete workflow based o...

Hello Community, My very first post here - my first foray into Chef. I have been using the following document: Automating Azure virtual machine deployment with Chef https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machi...

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what is cookbook? Meaning of 1 default recipe? How to create a recipe in CentOs or in Ubuntu?

Hi All , i have a chef server running with a few nodes registered on it . At the moment i have just ONE workstation managing and controlling the nodes with cookbooks written in my chef-repo dir. I have two orther engi...

I have followed the tuts on using filezilla to sftp to my droplet, however, i did connect succesfully one time to the root directory, however that is exactly all it was, the root directory ( / ). I am/was unable to br...

Hi,Can I create custom OS Template / Image on Digital Ocean where it should have pre-installed some packages on my need. ie; A OS Template with already installed OpenVPN. So I just create a new droplet with my custom ...

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Hey… Its my first time using chef. so i followed step by step too install it using this tutorial.https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-chef-12-configuration-management-system-on-ubuntu-14-04...

As your infrastructure requirements expand, managing each server by hand becomes an increasingly difficult task. This difficulty is compounded by the requirement for reproducibility, which becomes necessary if a node ...

In this guide, we will demonstrate how to bootstrap a DigitalOcean server using the metadata service and CloudInit to connect to an existing configuration management deployment. The actual configuration of the server ...

knife is a command line tool packaged with Chef. You’ve likely already used knife to create and manage Chef cookbooks, data bags, or roles. This guide will introduce you to some new knife subcommands for issuing comma...

In this article, we will discuss how to use a plugin for knife, the Chef configuration tool, to work with your DigitalOcean droplets. Using this tool, we can create infrastructure droplets and configure them easily fr...

In previous guides, we discussed Chef terminology, how to install a Chef server, workstation, and node (with Chef 12 or Chef 11), and how to create simple cookbooks to manage configuration. In this guide, we will cont...

In this article, we will discuss the basics of creating a Chef cookbook. Cookbooks are the configuration units that allow us to configure and perform specific tasks within Chef on our remote nodes. We will build cookb...

In this guide, we will work to install one Chef server used to store configuration data and administer access rights. This will serve as a hub for our other machines. We will also install a workstation that will allow...