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scmgalaxy K — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:33:51 +0000

Install chef

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> curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash

Check

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> chef-solo -v

Setup chef repository

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> wget http://github.com/opscode/chef-repo/tarball/master

> tar zxvf master

> mv opscode-chef-repo-f9d4b0c/ chef-repo

>ls chef-repo/

Create .chef directory inside chef-repo

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> mkdir chef-repo/.chef

Setup a local cookbook path

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> vi chef-repo/.chef/knife.rb

cookbook_path [ ‘/root/chef-repo/cookbooks’ ]

Create your first cookbook

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> knife cookbook create ntp

Writing your first recipe

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> vi chef-repo/cookbooks/ntp/recipes/default.rb

package ‘ntp’

Now configure your server using chef-solo

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> vi chef-repo/solo.rb

file_cache_path “/root/chef-solo”

cookbook_path “/root/chef-repo/cookbooks”

> vi web.json

{

“run_list”: [ “recipe[ntp]” ]

}

Ensure ntp is not installed

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> yum remove -y ntp

Use chef-solo to configure your server

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> chef-solo -c chef-repo/solo.rb -j chef-repo/web.json

Confirm ntp is installed

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> yum info ntp

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