Chef SDK Installation

Chef is an open-source systems management and cloud infrastructure automation framework.Chef is a Configuration Management tool written in Ruby and Erlang.It used a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language(DSL).

Chef is a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure-into-code. DevOps can use Chef to deploy and manage servers and applications in cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environments, no matter where you are using it.

Installing Chef On Virtual box using vagrant for portable virtual development environments

Prerequisite for this setup

1. Windows machine
2. At-least 6 to 8 GB ram memory 

Download and Install Virtual box on Windows

Download from this site and install it: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Command to verify Virtual box installation:
$VBoxManage --version
5.1.8r111374

Add the below path to the environmental varibles: 

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox

Download and Install Vagrant on Windows:

Download Vagrant from this site and double click to install : https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

To verify vagrant installed:

$vagrant --version

Vagrant 1.8.6

Add the below path to the environmental varibles:

C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\bin

Download and Install Operating System

Here I am installing Ubuntu 15.04

Download an Ubuntu Software (Ubuntu 15.04) from this site : http://www.vagrantbox.es 

Copy the Ubuntu software to the known location in your machine.

Create a text file and named it as "Vagrantfile". Add below content to the file and edit it as per your requirement: 

# -*- mode: ruby -*-

# vi: set ft=ruby :

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

  config.ssh.username = "chefuser" 

  config.ssh.password = "Welcome1"

  config.vm.box = "ubuntu-15.04-amd64.box"

  config.vm.synced_folder "D:\vagrant\vagrant_chef", "/u01/software",owner: "oracle", group: "oracle",  create: "true"

  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.33.105"

   

  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|

    vb.gui = true

    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]

    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "2"]

  end

end

Add Ubuntu image by running below command:

D:\vagrant\vagrant_chef>vagrant box add --name chef1  ubuntu-15.04-amd64.box

Initialize the Ubuntu Image in command prompt:

> vagrant init ubuntu-15.04-amd64.box

Bring up the vagrant box to access the Ubuntu OS:

vagrant up

Download and Install Chef SDK:

Download Chef SDK for  Ubuntu from the link below :

https://downloads.chef.io/chefdk#ubuntu

Download Winscp and install it in the local machine : 

https://winscp.net/eng/download.php#download2

Using winscp copy the chef sdk package to the Ubuntu box which is already accessible using ipaddress and port number.

Local User setup

SSH to virtual machine using root credentials.

Create group name "chefgrp" using below command:

groupadd chefgrp

Create user "chefuser"

useradd -c ‘Chef User’ -d /home/chefuser -g chefgrp -u 1100 -m chefuser

Change password for user "chefuser" using below command:

passwd chefuser

New password:

Confirm new password:

Assign sudo privileges to user "chefuser"

sudo visudo

Add the following line under “# User privilege specification” section

chefuser ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Save file and logout.

SSH to machine using user "chefuser".

Install Chef SDK Debian package

Go to the location where the installer placed and run below command

sudo dpkg -i chefdk_1.0.3-1_amd64.deb

Once it is sucessfully installed you will get the message "Thank you for installing Chef Development Kit!"

On ubuntu, by default chef dk is installed in the location : " /opt/chefdk" 

ls  -ltr /opt/chefdk

Verify Chef Installation, run below command:

chef verify

Uninstall ChefSDK: (if you need it)

Use the following command to remove the Chef development kit on Debian-based platforms:

dpkg -P chefdk

Work Station Setup

Consider your local machine is a workstation then download windows chefsdk package from the link below:

https://downloads.chef.io/chefdk#windows