NAME

       chake-chef - configure chake nodes with chef-solo

DESCRIPTION

       This configuration manager will allow you to manage nodes by running chef-solo(1) on each remote node.

       When chake init runs, the following chef-specific files will be created:

       A brief explanation of the created files that are specific to chef:

       •   config.rb: contains the chef-solo configuration. You can modify it, but usually you won't need to.

       •   config/roles: directory is where you can put your role definitions.

       •   cookbooks:  directory  where  you  will  store  your  cookbooks. A sample cookbook called "basics" is
           created, but feel free to remove it and add actual cookbooks.

CONFIGURATION

       Nodes can be configured to be managed with chef by having a run_list key in their configuration:

           host1.mycompany.com:
             run_list:
               - role[server]
               - recipe[service1]
             service1:
               option1: "here we go"

       Any extra configuration under host1.mycompany.com will be saved to a JSON file and given to the chef-solo
       --node-json option in the command line. For example, the above configuration will  produce  a  JSON  file
       that looks like this:

           {
             "run_list": [
               "role[server]",
               "recipe[service1]"
             ]
             ,
             "service1": {
               "option1": "here we go"
             }
           }

       Inside Chef recipes, you can access those values by using the node object. For example:

           template "/etc/service1.conf.d/option1.conf" do
             variables option1: node["option1"]
           end

BOOTSTRAPPING

       The  bootstrap  process for chef involves getting chef-solo installed. The node hostname will also be set
       based on the hostname informed in the configuration file.

SEE ALSO

       •   chake(1)

       •   https://docs.chef.io/

       •   https://docs.chef.io/chef_solo.html

                                                  February 2025                                    CHAKE-CHEF(7)