andrevaladas / chef-examples

Chef Examples

A collection of HowTo Chef examples to help you figure out how to do that thing you really want to do with Chef, Habitat, InSpec and anything else Chef-related. This repo is maintained by Chef, however, feel free to request examples, or file PR's to provide examples to the Chef Community.

Note: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Automate

• Setting Up SAML Auth in Automate with Okta
• Creating a Cookbook Pipeline Using Azure DevOps
• Set up Automate + Chef Infra Server to use RDS Aurora Postgres + AWS Elastisearch Service Backends
• Setup Automate with Let's Encrypt SSL Cert
• Automate SAML with AzureAD
• Grant Access to Applications Dashboard
• Ruby Automate API script for reporting last node checkins
• Ruby Automate API script for reporting node counts by Chef Infra Servers, organizations, and status
• Ruby Automate API script for exporting latest audits with filtering
• Ruby Nodes and Event Report, Accepting Values At The Command Line

Infra

• HowTo download then upload all Chef Cookbooks from one Chef Server to another
• Role Cookbook Model Explained
• HowTo bootstrap an Azure VM using an ARM template & Policyfiles
• HowTo create and test local Encrypted Data Bags using Test Kitchen
• Running Multiple Versions of Chef Workstation/DK from a Docker Container

InSpec

• Inspec example of checking Netbios configuration on Windows
• Inspec example of verifying Local Administrators on Windows

Habitat

• Habitat Builder with S3 and RDS

Start Environments

• Vagrant - Chef Infra Server
• Vagrant - Chef Node
• Vagrant - Starter Environment

Other

• Writing Basic Cookstyle Rules
• Example Pipelines
• Test Kitchen
• Technical Reviews

Contributing

1. Verify if there is a current "Example Request" issue for what you are going to be adding content for, if not, add a new issue so it's not duplicated.
2. Fork this repo.
3. Create a named example branch (e.g. example_xyz).
4. Using the HowTo template, write your new HowTo example.
5. Submit a Pull Request, and request review.