Anthony Rees anthonygrees

Habitat On-Prem-Builder Depot authentication setup with Chef Automate

Step 1: create a new OAuth Application in Chef Automate

Login into your Automate server and create a file called oauth.toml

bldr_signin_url Is your builder FQDN. The URL should be http if you have SSL disabled which may be the case for an evaluation.

IMPORTANT: don't forget the / at the end of the URL you set for bldr_signin_url

VMware and Chef tools

Chef and VMware are a natural pairing and there are several tools available to enhance the integration.

Knife is a command-line tool that provides an interface between a local chef-repo and the Chef server and allows you to manipulate objects on the Chef server. Knife plugin allows your computer to talk to a 3rd party systems like vSphere or vRA. A plugin can create a VM in vSphere and then bootstrap it with Chef, for example, or it can expose your vRa catalog to your workstation so you don't need to use a GUI.

The following are the main interfaces with VMware and Chef our "knife" plugins.

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import argparse
	import configparser
	import json
	import subprocess
	import sys
	import os
	import requests

	stages: # List of stages for jobs, and their order of execution
	- iac-scan


	docker:image:
	stage: iac-scan
	image: docker:1.11
	services:
	- docker:dind
	script:

	MY_INSTANCEID
	MY_SERVER
	user-data.txt
	.zshrc
	.gitconfig
	.ssh
	.byobu
	.oh-my-zsh