Vagrant and Chef

• Using Vagrant to play with Chef
  • On Windows
  • On workstation (known as aharriwinvm on my machine)

Using Vagrant to play with Chef

I'm using chef to provision some machines from Windows, and here's the process I did it with:

On Windows

Install choco and a modern Powershell.

Install vagrant, virtualbox, rsync.

Make a folder and switch to it: mkdir $env:USERNAME\Vagrant\chef && cd $env:USERNAME\Vagrant\chef

Use the Vagrantfile modified from this SuperUser post.

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
    config.vm.define "chefworkstation" do |chefworkstation|
        chefworkstation.vm.box = "centos/7"
        config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', disabled: true
        # You may wish to use a more obscure private ip, like 10.2.2.4
        chefworkstation.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.0.0.200"
        chefworkstation.vm.hostname = "chefworkstation1"
    end
    # It's going to be easier to use hosted chef until I need something like this
    # config.vm.define "chefserver" do |chefserver|
    #     chefserver.vm.box = "centos/7"
    #     config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', disabled: true
    #     # You may wish to use a more obscure private ip, like 10.2.2.5
    #     chefserver.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.0.0.201"
    #     chefserver.vm.hostname = "chefserver1"
    #     chefserver.memory = 4096
    # end
    config.vm.define "chefnode" do |chefnode|
        chefnode.vm.box = "centos/7"
        config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', disabled: true
        # You may wish to use a more obscure private ip, like 10.2.2.5
        chefnode.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.0.0.202"
        chefnode.vm.hostname = "chefnode1"
    end
end

Start it: vagrant up. Because rsync didn't like my SSH settings, I had to do this a couple of times.

SSH into workstation: vagrant ssh workstation

On workstation (known as aharriwinvm on my machine)

Following the instructions from here and here.

Download the chefdk installer from the website: curl -LO https://packages.chef.io/stable/el/7/chefdk-0.15.15-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Install it: sudo rpm -ivh <rpm_name>.rpm

verify it: chef verify

Set up text editor (I'm a vim user):

sudo yum -y install vim-enhanced # also installs perl...?
curl -o ~/.vimrc -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bbkane/backup/master/common/.vimrc-ben

To be continued...

Probably not continued :) :) :)