ricardolupo / workstation

A Chef cookbook to get a workstation created with all the tools

workstation

This cookbook runs a workstation setup cookbook installing all the relevant tools and config for me. It's meant to be a practical example of how to use Chef to solve for a common use case (everyone has a Workstation BRUH). This cookbook will demonstrate 2 workflows; the Berks workflow, which will use chef-zero and the Chef Workstation workflow, which will simplify how dependencies are packaged and executed.

Before you get started

Be sure to install ChefDK on your workstation. Chef-DK contains the chef-client so you only need to download the one package. The download can be found here(https://downloads/chef.io/chef-dk)

Berks workflow: You'll run the following to demonstrate the Berks workflow:

1. In the current working directory, run berks vendor cookbooks. This will take the declared cookbook dependencies in the Berksfile and download them to your local repo
2. You have 2 options to execute the cookbook; a) sudo chef-client -z -E packages.json -r workstation to run the chef-client in local mode. -E defines an environment. Environments are a primitive in Chef to provide tunables to your automation (https://docs.chef.io/environments.html#attribute-precedence) b) Your second option is to use the bash wrapper ./chef-run which concatenates the command for you.

TODO: Add aws and azure setup Show Chef workstation workflow