A quick guide to get started with the Chef Infra Client on a virtual machine by Rachel McCown, Consultant and Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
A quick guide to get started with the Chef Infra Client on a virtual machine by Rachel McCown, Consultant and Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
Managing your code in Chef is just as important as managing your application’s source code. Improper management of your cookbooks will almost guarantee mistakes, frustration and even failure. For the sake of this post, I will assume that you will be able to use git as your SCM. So first, we will set up an […]
In a typical CI/CD pipeline, code is build, code is deployed, code is tested. In our specific scenario the code is built through Jenkins and maven on a Jenkins build slave, then the build artifacts are uploaded to an artifact repository. Through an Infrastructure-as-code tool, like Chef, the code is deployed to a test environment […]
Last month I started writing about the DevOps pipeline that I built out for a PHP project. Today I plan on filling it out a bit more. What I described last week is what many people consider a full CI Pipeline, executing unit tests, code coverage, and static analysis. I threw in a little more […]
Dear Loyal Readers, If you ever wish you could bootstrap a machine with chef-zero, but remotely, then knife-zero plugin is for you (aka: “do you ever wish Chef were more like Ansible?”). Last week, I was trying to combine multiple knife commands: “-z” for using chef zero, and “bootstrap” for making a remote computer install chef-client first. But, […]
Here are some tips for keeping your OS environment secure, the DevOps way. Scanning Get your environment scanned early and often. And your first scan should happen even earlier. Nothing is worse than getting your first set of scan result back and realizing you have just been given 2 weeks worth of “surprise” work. Our […]
I recently gave two versions of a talk at Jenkins User Conference 2015 World Tour in Washington, D.C. Here are the slides for anyone who wants to review them: JUC Zero to Jenkins. That talk comes in two forms which you will notice from two cover pages. Zero to Federated at the Speed of Jenkins – […]
I’m presenting at Chef Con! So if you have any free time, you should drop by Santa Clara next week. Schedule Direct link to me I’m going to talk more in depth about migrating to the cloud using Chef, Design decisions which can save you some time, and talk to them about some debugging tips […]
From There to Here and Here to There Due to the requirements of my client I have a need to move our chef server into a completely different hosting environment. This little journey started when I asked that we actually try and preform a restore from our chef backups. When that didn’t work, one of […]
As I talked about last month when trying to demystify “UNDEFINED METHOD `[]’ FOR NIL:NILCLASS” error, it can be challenging to make sure all your attributes are set the way you want, or even at all. One thing that should be detectable is anytime you get nothing (nil) back from a Node[] call, we might as […]
