Walk through of deploying a Chef to Rackspace three ways: * Omnibus * Chef-solo * Rackspace Deployments

1. BROWN BAG:
Chef in
PRODUCTION
Hart Hoover
@hhoover
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2. CLOUD SAVVY
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3. ENTERPRISE
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4. CHEF SOLO
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5. OPEN SOURCE CHEF
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6. TOOLS!
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Git/GitHub
Berkshelf
Vagrant
Vagrant Plugins
Test Kitchen
Foodcritic
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7. CHEF SeRVER
ANATOMY
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8. NGINX
WebUI
API
Erchef
Bookshelf
PostgreSQL
Cookbooks
MQ
SOLR
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9. YOUR OWN CHEF SERVER
INSTALL THE PACKAGE
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10. YOUR OWN CHEF SERVER
USE RACKSPACE DEPLOYMENTS
(HEAT/CHECKMATE)
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11. YOUR OWN CHEF SERVER
USE CHEF-SOLO TO
DEPLOY CHEF-SERVER
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12. PACKAGES
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13. REQUIREMENTS
OPERATING SYSTEM:
!
UBUNTU 12.04
OR
CENTOS 6.3
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14. REQUIREMENTS
FQDN
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15. UBUNTU 12.04
OMNIBUS
curl
-­‐L
https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh
|
sudo
bash
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16. UBUNTU 12.04
IS THE CHEF SERVER RUNNING?
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17. CLOUD SAVVY
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18. MANAGING SERVICES
$ chef-server-ctl
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19. Chef-Server-CTL
$ chef-server-ctl [OPTION]
help
reconfigure
stop [service]
start [service]
restart [service]
status [service]
tail [service]
test --all
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20. Chef-Server-CTL
$ chef-server-ctl [OPTION]
help
reconfigure
stop [service]
start [service]
restart [service]
status [service]
tail [service]
test --all
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21. Chef-Server-CTL
$ chef-server-ctl [OPTION]
help
reconfigure
stop [service]
start [service]
restart [service]
status [service]
tail [service]
test --all
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22. Chef-Server-CTL
$ chef-server-ctl [OPTION]
help
reconfigure
stop [service]
start [service]
restart [service]
status [service]
tail [service]
test --all
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23. Chef-Server-CTL
$ chef-server-ctl [OPTION]
help
reconfigure
stop [service]
start [service]
restart [service]
status [service]
tail [service]
test --all
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24. Chef-Server-CTL
$ chef-server-ctl [OPTION]
help
reconfigure
stop [service]
start [service]
restart [service]
status [service]
tail [service]
test --all
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25. Chef-Server-CTL
$ chef-server-ctl [OPTION]
help
reconfigure
stop [service]
start [service]
restart [service]
status [service]
tail [service]
test --all
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26. Chef-Server-CTL
$ chef-server-ctl [OPTION]
help
reconfigure
stop [service]
start [service]
restart [service]
status [service]
tail [service]
test --all
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27. START ALL THE THINGS
$ chef-server-ctl reconfigure
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28. CLOUD SAVVY
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29. DEPLOYMENTS
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30. CLOUD SAVVY
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31. CLOUD SAVVY
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32. CLOUD SAVVY
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33. CLOUD SAVVY
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34. CHEF ON CHEF
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35. CHEF-SOLO METHOD
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-server
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36. ATTRIBUTES
api_fqdn
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37. ATTRIBUTES
version
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38. BOOTSTRAP YOUR
SERVER
INSTALL CHEF SOLO
(OMNIBUS… AGAIN)
curl
-­‐L
https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh
|
sudo
bash
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39. BOOTSTRAP YOUR
SERVER
CREATE DIRECTORIES
$ mkdir -p /var/chef/cache
$ mkdir -p /var/chef/cookbooks/chef-server
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40. BOOTSTRAP YOUR
SERVER
GET THE COOKBOOK
$ wget -qO- https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/
chef-server/archive/master.tar.gz | tar xvzC /var/
chef/cookbooks/chef-server --strip-components=1
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41. BOOTSTRAP YOUR
SERVER
RUN CHEF-SOLO
$ chef-solo -o 'recipe[chef-server::default]'
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42. CLOUD SAVVY
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43. CLOUD SAVVY
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44. https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-server
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45. Monitoring
WITH
NEW RELIC
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46. INFRASTRUCTURE
MONITORING
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47. APPLICATION
MONITORING
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48. PERFORMANCE
MONITORING
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49. USE BERKSHELF!
site :opscode
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cookbook ‘newrelic’
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50. ATTRIBUTES
attributes/default.rb
default['newrelic']['server_monitoring']['license']
=
"CHANGE_ME"
default['newrelic']['application_monitoring']['license']
=
"CHANGE_ME"
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51. YOUR MONITORING RUN LIST:
recipe[newrelic]
SET YOUR ATTRIBUTES!
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52. THANK
YOU!
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