Larry Eichenbaum larryebaum

LDAP Bulking User Creation Process

This is temporal automation to create/update multiple LDAP users in Chef Automate. If a user appears in the input file and already exists as a user, the user roles will be updated as specified within the input file. If the user does not exist, it will be created with the specified roles.

Prerequisites

The minimum prerequisites to be able to use this automation are:

Use a Unix Workstation. (MAC, Linux, etc)
Have ChefDK Installed. (https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/)
Setup the CLI to point to your Automate Server. (https://asciinema.org/a/89658)
Download the bulk-user-creation.rb script locally and give executable permissions to the file.

Chef Local Development Workflow with ChefDK, Vagrant, VirtualBox, and Test Kitchen

Overview

The following document is intended to be a quick guide to getting you setup for doing local development with Chef. This guide was created on my MacBook, but should work fine with Linux, and Windows workstations as well.

Quick review on fundamental tenets of Chef

Workstation - A workstation is a computer that is configured to run various Chef command-line tools that synchronize with a chef-repo, author cookbooks, interact with the Chef server, interact with nodes, or applications like Chef Delivery
Node - A node is any machine—physical, virtual, cloud, network device, etc.—that is under management by Chef.
Chef Server- The Chef server acts as a hub for configuration data. The Chef server stores cookbooks, the policies that are applied to nodes, and metadata that describes each registered

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	# $ ron -5 man/rip.5.ron \| browser

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	chef-run chef@node1 file '/etc/motd'
	content='Welcome to Chef’ --password Cod3Can!
	chef-run chef@node1 motd.rb --password Cod3Can!
	chef-run winrm://Administrator@winnode1
	file_experiment.rb --password Cod3Can!
	chef generate cookbook -P setup
	chef generate template motd
	kitchen converge
	kitchen verify
	kitchen destroy