Writing Chef Target Mode Resources After my previous blog posts, you might be tempted to write your own Chef custom resources which are compatible with Target Mode. Luckily, this is very easy - so this will be a short one.
Local Preprocessing in Target Mode If you ever created configuration files with any automation system, you know that this involves a lot of templating. This is actually one of the most basic tasks that Chef performs and it is done using the template resource. With Chef’s Target Mode this currently is a bit more complicated.
Target Mode with Chef Server and Chef Automate It is not sufficient to provision remote devices via Target Mode but we also want an overview of node attributes, run history and changed resources. In this post we have a look at how to connect agentless resources with central servers to give us the much-needed visibility.
Agentless Provisioning with Chef One of the main points of criticism about Chef I heard over the last few years has been the need to have an agent deployed at remote machines. Sometimes that is not desired, sometimes it is not even possible. Due to this, configuring remote machines has become the stronghold of other tools - but a new feature of Chef changes the landscape fundamentally.
As you probably are aware, Chef is a tool which is meant for automatic provisioning and configuring of systems. So if you have a particular problem falling outside of the regular use cases, both posts on the internet and support enquiries of any kind will probably result in one of two answers: “that is not possible” or “you are doing it wrong”. But - what if you really need this for a rather exotic task or even as an transitory solution?
AWS hat Chef als Technologiepartner. Da nicht nur AWS Chef in ihren Services wie OpsWorks oder OpsWorks Chef Automate nutzt, sondern auch wir, möchte ich eine kurze Einführung von Chef und Test-Kitchen geben. In diesem Teil werden wir feststellen, wie schnell es geht, ein Testsystem mit den richtigen Mitteln zu erstellen. Im nächsten Teil werden wir das Ganze noch weiter verfeinern. Chef Cookbooks und Kitchen Warum Chef und was hat das mit AWS zu tun?
