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Mastering Chef

You're reading from   Mastering Chef Build, deploy, and manage your IT infrastructure to deliver a successful automated system with Chef in any environment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783981564
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mayank Joshi Mayank Joshi
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to the Chef Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER 2. Knife and Its Associated Plugins 3. Chef and Ruby 4. Controlling Access to Resources 5. Starting the Journey to the World of Recipes 6. Cookbooks and LWRPs 7. Roles and Environments 8. Attributes and Their Uses 9. Ohai and Its Plugin Ecosystem 10. Data Bags and Templates 11. Chef API and Search 12. Extending Chef 13. (Ab)Using Chef Index

Endpoints

With our understanding of authorization, we can now go ahead and start playing with the Chef server API; however, before we jump ahead and get our hands dirty, lets quickly check what endpoints are provided to us by the Chef server and also see what to expect from them.

/users

The users endpoint has two methods:

  • The GET method
  • The POST method

GET

The GET method is used to get a list of users set up on the Chef server. This method has no parameters. We had used this method to get a list of users configured on our Chef server in the example earlier.

For a request, we can use the following code:

GET /users

Response:

The response will return a JSON, containing a username and URI corresponding to users on the Chef server:

{
  "mayank"=>"https://chef.sychonet.com:443/users/mayank"
}

POST

The POST method is used to create a user on the Chef server.

For a request, we can use the following code:

POST /users

For a response, we can use the following code:

{
   "user_name&quot...
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