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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

Setting up an environment on a node


Once environments have been created, we will need to ensure that the nodes are correctly associated with the environments. Again, as with the management of environments, there are multiple ways to associate a node with an environment.

Using Knife

We can make use of the knife node command with the environment_set argument to set the environment for a node without editing the node object:

$ knife node environment_set node01 production

This will set the environment for node01 as production. The next time chef-client executes on the node, it'll apply the configuration corresponding to the production environment on node01.

We can also edit the node object itself and set the chef_environment property with the required environment name as follows:

$ knife node edit node01

This will open up the corresponding node01 object's JSON in the text editor. Add/edit the chef_environment property with the right environment name and save the file to apply the changes:

{
   ...
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