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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

Ridley

Ridley is a Chef API client written in Ruby, which can be used to perform all the operations we looked at earlier, in a very elegant way.

Ridley is available as a gem and can be installed using the following command:

gem install ridley

Before we can use Ridley in our application, we need to require the library. This can be done using the standard Ruby require:

require 'ridley'

Once the library has been required, we just need to create our ridley client and use it to perform all the actions:

ridley = Ridley.new(
  server_url: "CHEF_SERVER_URL",
  client_name: "CLIENT_NAME",
  client_key: "PATH_TO_CLIENT_KEY"
)

You can also provide encrypted_data_bag_secret as a key, which can be used to provide a secret that can be used to decrypt the encrypted data bags.

You can use different functions exposed by Ridley to either retrieve or create objects on the Chef server. For example, the following example will help us get a list of all the users configured on...

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