Installing software packages using cookbooks

Until now, we've seen how to created a hosted Chef account, how to configure a Chef workstation, and how to converge a node.

Now it is time to install software packages using cookbooks. To set up the runtime environment automatically, it's best to use the Chef community cookbooks:

1. Visit https://github.com/chef-cookbooks and find all the community cookbooks required to set up a runtime environment, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

2. We are using a sample Spring application, namely, PetClinic. We need to install Java and Tomcat to run a Java EE application such as this.

3. Download the Tomcat cookbook from https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/tomcat , and navigate to the Dependencies section on that page. Without the dependencies uploaded to our Chef server, we can't upload the Tomcat cookbook to use it.

4. Download OpenSSL and Chef Sugar from https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/openssl and https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/chef-sugar respectively...