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:book: Challenges Your Chef Skills By Solving Real Questions.

challenges-chef: Chef Case study from dummy to pro

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Table of Contents

Challenges Your Chef Skills By Solving Real Questions.

• Scenarios
  • Scenario-101: Chef HelloWorld I
  • Scenario-102: Chef HelloWorld II
  • Scenario-103: Chef HelloWorld III
  • Scenario-201: Enforce TDD For Your Chef Cookbooks I
  • Scenario-202: Enforce TDD For Your Chef Cookbooks II
  • Scenario-301: Use Chef To Deploy Jenkins I
  • Scenario-302: Use Chef To Deploy Jenkins II
  • Scenario-303: Use Chef To Deploy Jenkins II
  • Scenario-401: Use Chef To Deploy 2 Nodes Jenkins I
• Highlights
• Contributors: Give People Credits
• License

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Scenarios

Scenario-101: Chef HelloWorld I

• Objective: Create a dummy cookbook, and test deployment in docker
• Requirements:

1. Use docker container to start a env with chef pre-installed
2. Create a dummy cookbook and apply it

• See more: Scenario-101

Scenario-102: Chef HelloWorld II

• Objective: Pure VM deployment
• Requirements:

1. Start a VM, install chef facility
2. Create a dummy cookbook to install jq package
3. Before install jq, run "apt-get update" by chef. So you need berkshelf.
4. Enforce rubocop and foodcritic for code static check

• See more: Scenario-102

Scenario-103: Chef HelloWorld III

• Objective: Setup chef server and chef client
• Requirements:

1. Start 3 containers to run chef server, knife workstation and chef client
2. Install and configure knife
3. From knife node run chef deployment in chef client node

• See more: Scenario-103
• TODO

Scenario-201: Enforce TDD For Your Chef Cookbooks I

• Objective: Test your cookbooks. Run kitchen docker in your laptop.
• Requirements:

1. Use kitchen to test your cookbook: start a container and test the logic
2. Enforce kitchen verify logic via serverspec

• See more: Scenario-201

Scenario-202: Enforce TDD For Your Chef Cookbooks II

• Objective: Deploy for 3 scenarios: docker, local VM and public cloud
• Requirements:

1. Use Kitchen to test local vm deployment
2. Use Kitchen to test docker deployment
3. Use Kitchen to test cloud VM deployment

• See more: Scenario-202

Scenario-301: Use Chef To Deploy Jenkins I

• Objective: Use chef to deploy one common service for real
• Requirements:

1. Deploy a standalone jenkins by chef
2. Chef shall add one jenkins user
3. Chef shall add a dummy job with slack notification enabled
4. Run deployment in docker, vagrant and EC2
5. Test both Ubuntu 14.04 and Centos 7

• See more: Scenario-301

Scenario-302: Use Chef To Deploy Jenkins II

• Objective: More Jenkins customization
• Requirements:

1. For better security, only registered user can login
2. For better security, Jenkins listen on port 18080, instead of 8080
3. When Jenkins is down, get alerts

• See more: Scenario-302

Scenario-303: Use Chef To Deploy Jenkins II

• Objective: More Jenkins customization
• Requirements:

1. Use Jenkinsfile to create a Jenkins pipeline
2. Enable and configure ThinBackup

• See more: Scenario-303
• TODO

Scenario-401: Use Chef To Deploy 2 Nodes Jenkins I

• Objective: Test and verify the deployment for both all-in-one and 2 nodes cluster
• Requirements:

1. Test 2 nodes jenkins cluster deployment in docker
2. Use Jenkinsfile to configure Jenkins
3. Define Jenkins pipeline

• See more: Scenario-303
• TODO

Highlights

• More Resources:

https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/jenkins
https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-examples

Contributors: Give People Credits

Below are folks who have contributed via GitHub!

License

• Code is licensed under MIT License.