Top "Chef-infra" questions

Chef Infra (formerly just Chef) is a DevOps tool for scripting server configurations in Ruby (called cookbooks).

Vagrant Install chef-client on top of base image

I'm trying to use Chef to install graphite server and I encountered errors saying that either chef-solo or chef-client was …

chef-infra vagrant
Chef cookbook version delete, or update specific version

I have long history of a cookbook that has a recipe of the app and is constantly modified. It got …

version chef-infra knife cookbook
Provisioning Vagrant w/ Chef

I'm digging into what it will take to migrate my development environments to Vagrant and I'm having some trouble getting …

chef-infra vagrant
Including a Chef LWRP from another cookbook

I wrote a small LWRP my app cookbook (trim_log), and it works. However, now I am trying to move …

chef-infra lwrp
Where is my Chef data bag item?

I was trying to create a Chef data bag from within the chef-repo directory using the command: knife data bag …

chef-infra knife databags
Installing chef-server in a docker container

I have been trying to install Chef-Server in a Docker container and I am having some trouble. I am running …

chef-infra docker linux-containers
Vagrant, Docker, Puppet, Chef

I don't understand even the basic difference between the services in the title. Do these services just provide software to …

docker vagrant chef-infra puppet
Difference between convergence and idempotence in Chef

What is the basic difference between convergence and idempotence in Chef?

chef-infra theory configuration-management
Generate a file from a string without having to create a template file in Chef?

I currently use this code in a recipe: template "/var/django/.ssh/id_rsa" do source "id_rsa.erb" owner "…

chef-infra
how to use shell script in not_if condition

I want to use shell script output to validate the resource in guard condition.I am using below code still …

bash chef-infra recipe