Larry Eichenbaum larryebaum

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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	#WINDOWS Knife Example Content

	current_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
	log_level :info
	log_location STDOUT
	node_name "chef_user_here"
	client_key "#{ENV['HOME']}/.chef/chef_client_here.pem"
	validation_client_name "organization_here-validator"
	validation_key "#{ENV['HOME']}/.chef/organization_here-validator.pem"
	chef_server_url "https://api.opscode.com/organizations/organization_here"

	22 (SSH/SCP)
	80 (HTTP)
	81 (HTTP ALT)
	443 (HTTPS)
	5985 (WINRM)
	5986 (WINRM)
	3389 (RDP)
	8080 (HTTP ALT)
	8081 (HTTP ALT)