Provisioning with Chef on Vagrant

Vagrant also supports two methods of using Chef:

• Chef-solo

• Chef in client/server mode with Chef client

Let's take a look at how to configure Vagrant with Chef using these two different methods.

Using Chef-solo

Chef-solo is the Chef equivalent of Puppet standalone.

The simplest way to use this within our project is simply to provide a Chef run list to Vagrant; this tells Vagrant which cookbooks should be applied. The following is an example of telling Vagrant to use the PHP cookbook:

config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef| 
  chef.add_recipe "php" 
end

This takes the PHP cookbook from the default cookbooks folder and applies it to the virtual machine.

As with Puppet, Vagrant makes some assumptions by default; they are as follows:

• Cookbooks are stored in the cookbooks folder within the project root. The chef.cookbooks_path setting allows us to override the cookbooks folder location. We can either provide a single path or an array of paths (wrapped in square brackets...