Chef Training Prerequisites

Prerequisites for Chef Training

Hardware - Prerequisites

CENTOS 7: Number of Machine - 2

Windows 2012: Number of Machine - 1

Every machine should have 2 VM's with Centos 7 version.
Each VM should be able to connect with Internet and Internal corporate proxy should be set accordingly.
Every Base Machine (Windows Machine) should have at least 8GB RAM
Every VM Machine must have minimum 2GB Ram
Every Base Machine (Windows Machine) should have Putty, Oracle VirtualBox and WinScp Installed
Every VM should have fully qualified hostname which should be pinged each other VMs and Host Machine.
Every VM should have bridge network preferred
Every VM should have static IP setup resolving to Bridge connected
Each Machine should have “sudo yum update” run in full cycle.
Corporate Proxy server:port should be available to use by participants in case of download limitation and firewall.


Software - Prerequisite

Following tools should be installed

CentOS VM - http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1511.iso
Putty - http://www.putty.org/
WinSCP - https://winscp.net/eng/download.php
CHEFDK - https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chefdk/1.1.16/el/7/chefdk-1.1.16-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
CHEF SERVER - https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef-server/12.11.1/el/7/chef-server-core-12.11.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
CHEF CLIENT CENTOS7 - https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef/12.17.44/el/7/chef-12.17.44-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
CHEF CLIENT WINDOWS - https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef/12.17.44/windows/2012/chef-client-12.17.44-1-x64.msi
Following tools should be Copied to Shared Drive
Chefdk, ChefServer
Following Commands should be run in Centos 7

Docker in Centos, Please run follwing commands.

	
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/docker.repo <<-'EOF'
[dockerrepo]
name=Docker Repository
baseurl=https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/centos/7/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://yum.dockerproject.org/gpg
EOF
$ sudo yum install docker-engine


Others Prerequisite

Internet Speed - Each Box should have at least 8MBPS internet speed.




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