Chef Demo Infrastructure

This project illustrates a setup of the Chef ecosystem. Currently, it includes the following products:

• Chef Server (including Chef Manage) running in a VM
• Chef Analytics running in separate VM
• Chef Clients running in Docker container

Preconditions

• [VirtualBox] (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
• [Vagrant] (https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)
• [Docker] (https://docs.docker.com/installation/)

Get started

At first, we have to start the servers. Please ensure the order during the first boot up. The Chef Server needs to be started before Analytics.

vagrant up server
vagrant up analytics

Verify that Chef Server is running properly. Visit the Web UI via:

url:      https://192.168.34.10/login
username: admin
password: insecurepassword

Now, verify the Chef Analytics UI is available at https://192.168.34.11. Use the same credentials as for the Chef Server. Finally, you should see the Chef Analytics Timeline dashboard.

Before we run the client, we need to build the chef-client docker image:

docker build -t chef-client ./client

To run all commands that we mentioned above together:

./run prepare

Start clients

The run command allows you to start multiple chef-clients quickly. It will start docker container with Chef clients. Those clients will automatically register at our Chef Server.

./run
    [prepare]
    Boots VMs and prepares the Docker image

    [start] [<number>]
    Starts a given number of containers with chef-client.
    The client automatically registers at the chef server.

    [stop]
    Stops all running chef-clients.

Now we are read to kick off some clients:

./run start 10

Now, you can see the 10 clients registered in Chef Server and events have been triggered to Chef Analytics.

Troubleshoot

If you use Mac, boot2docker is required. We may move the dependency in a VM later on. Currently, you need to install boot2docker or Docker Toolbox

For boot2docker run:

boot2docker init
boot2docker up
eval "$(boot2docker shellinit)"

Authors

• Author: Christoph Hartmann chartmann@chef.io