Chef is a configuration management tool that automates managing infrastructure as code. It uses Ruby and collects configuration details into what it calls “recipes”.
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.
No answers yet • 1 year ago • By khandelwaltanay2311Chef
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...
1 answer • 2 years ago • By woldorfDigitalOceanChef
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...
2 years ago • By Erika HeidiChefConfiguration ManagementGetting Started
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...
Accepted Answer: (Some mistakes were made in this reply, see comments that follow it) Hello friend! That sounds like a lot of fun any way you spin it. I’m going to do my best to provide answers to what I can, and hope that others feel...
2 answers • 4 years ago • By Curtis FisherWordPressNginxChefTerraformDockerMySQLBlock StorageUbuntu
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...
1 answer • 4 years ago • By throwawayDockerDjangoPythonKubernetesCI/CDAPIAnsibleChefUbuntu 16.04Ubuntu
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...
2 answers • 5 years ago • By Carlton PattersonChef
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2 answers • 5 years ago • By a69eb50ee62519aDigitalOceanBackupsChefMiscellaneous
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...
1 answer • 7 years ago • By James BarlowWordPressConfiguration ManagementSystem ToolsChefLEMPUbuntu
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 ...
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 ...
7 years ago • By Justin EllingwoodConfiguration ManagementChefUbuntu
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 ...
7 years ago • By Justin EllingwoodAPIChefConfiguration Management
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...
8 years ago • By Nik WakelinChefConfiguration ManagementDigitalOceanUbuntu
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...
8 years ago • By Justin EllingwoodChefDigitalOcean
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...
8 years ago • By Justin EllingwoodChefConfiguration Management
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...
8 years ago • By Justin EllingwoodConfiguration ManagementChefNginxUbuntu
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...
8 years ago • By Justin EllingwoodChefConfiguration ManagementGitUbuntu