knife_zero

Use this to configure and deploy our VMs and develop cookbooks.

Platform

This configuration has been tested (and works) on Windows 7 and Windows 10. It should work on other platforms provided your environment is set up the same:

• ChefDK 1.0.3
• knife-zero 1.17.1

Quickstart

1. Install ChefDK
2. add ChefDK & Ruby to path
3. chef gem install knife-zero
4. Ready to go!

Usage

We use the knife-zero gem to deploy and configure remote nodes. More documentation is available here.

Deploying to a remote server

1. Set up data bags and/or roles of the node
2. knife zero bootstrap root@SERVER_IP -N NODENAME -r "RUN_LIST"

Updating the configuration of an already provisioned server

1. Update the data bags and/or roles of the node
2. knife zero converge 'name:NODENAME'

Developing

Example: If you wanted to develop on the lits_vm cookbook

1. mkdir site-cookbooks && cd site-cookbooks
2. git clone https://github.com/ryersonlibrary/lits_vm.git
3. Add this line to the Berksfile cookbook 'lits_vm', path: 'site-cookbooks/lits_vm'
4. Remove or comment the existing line cookbook 'lits_vm', github: 'ryersonlibrary/lits_vm', tag: 'v0.3.4'
5. Delete Berksfile.lock file
6. berks

More documentation about Chef here