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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

You're reading from   Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant Implement end-to-end DevOps and infrastructure management using Vagrant

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138054
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing VirtualBox and Vagrant 3. Command Line-Interface - Vagrant Commands 4. Discovering Vagrant Boxes - Vagrant Cloud 5. Configuring Vagrant Using a Vagrantfile 6. Networking in Vagrant 7. Multi-Machine 8. Exploring Vagrant Plugins and Syncing Files 9. Shell Scripts - Provisioning 10. Ansible - Using Ansible to Provision a Vagrant Box 11. Chef - Using Chef to Provision a Vagrant Box 12. Docker - Using Docker with Vagrant 13. Puppet - Using Puppet to Provision a Vagrant Box 14. Salt - Using Salt to Provision a Vagrant Box 15. Other Book You May Enjoy

Provisioning Vagrant with Chef


There are four different ways to use Chef to provision a Vagrant machine that Vagrant supports. This means that Chef has the most options in Vagrant when it comes to provisioning. The four options are as follows:

  • Chef Solo
  • Chef Zero
  • Chef Client
  • Chef Apply

In this chapter, we will be focusing on Chef Solo and Chef Client. This will give you a good mixture of provisioning on the host machine and the Vagrant machine.

Installing Chef on macOS

Before we can begin using Chef, we will first need to install it. We'll learn how to install Chef on the macOS operating system (the High Sierra 10.13 version).

We'll be installing the Chef DK (development kit), which includes all of the dependencies, utilities, and the main Chef software. The list of installed software includes the following:

  • Chef client
  • OpenSSL
  • Embedded Ruby
  • RubyGems
  • Command-line utilites
  • Key value stores
  • Parsers
  • Utilities
  • Libraries
  • Community tools such as Kitchen and ChefSpec

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Please Note: The Apple XCode software package...

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