Rollout the Chef client

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Hi All,

We are implementing Chef. I want to rollout Chef Client in all the exiting Linux, Solaris and Windows VMs.

Could you please suggest a good approach for this?

Thanks
Devesh

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Thats a pretty open ended question. Download Chef Infra Client | Chef https://www.getchef.com/download-chef-client/ has downloads for installing Chef. If that doesn’t provide resources, can you provide more information about what prevents you from installing it through normal channels?

-T

On Nov 30, 2014, at 8:54 PM, devesh.mehta@accenture.com wrote:

Hi All,

We are implementing Chef. I want to rollout Chef Client in all the exiting Linux, Solaris and Windows VMs.

Could you please suggest a good approach for this?

Thanks
Devesh

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We are planning to implement Chef in our estate. We have around 300+ hosts & VMs which include different versions of OS like Solaris/Linux/Windows/AIX machines

I just want to avoid a lot of manual work in rolling out Chef Client. Could you please suggest a good approach (creating script or any tool) for this?

What’s required for the install on Solaris/Windows/AIX?

The mechanism we use - we might want to use it again in future to upgrade the clients- unless chef can do that itself, which I doubt.

Thanks

Devesh

From: Tyler [mailto:tball@getchef.com]
Sent: 01 December 2014 11:33
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Rollout the Chef client

Thats a pretty open ended question. https://www.getchef.com/download-chef-client/ has downloads for installing Chef. If that doesn’t provide resources, can you provide more information about what prevents you from installing it through normal channels?

-T

On Nov 30, 2014, at 8:54 PM, devesh.mehta@accenture.commailto:devesh.mehta@accenture.com wrote:

Hi All,

We are implementing Chef. I want to rollout Chef Client in all the exiting Linux, Solaris and Windows VMs.

Could you please suggest a good approach for this?

Thanks
Devesh

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4

Chef can be used to update itself.

When rolling chef into existing infrastructure, the simplest way is to use
knife bootstrap. This is easily script able.

For Unix systems, we make an ssh connection. For Windows, we need winrm
open and we use winrm.

On Windows, if everything is talking to AD, you could use a group policy
to download and install the chef-client to each node. It's cleaner than
knife bootstrap imo.

I'm sure others have more elaborate suggestions, but since this is a one
time task, I try to not spend too much time automating the whole thing.

Lastly, the method you use to get chef onto your existing infrastructure
may not be the same to get it onto new infrastructure. I bake chef-client
into my images for future infrastructure.

Hope that helps!

-Mobile Galen
On Dec 1, 2014 1:31 AM, devesh.mehta@accenture.com wrote:

We are planning to implement Chef in our estate. We have around 300+ hosts
& VMs which include different versions of OS like Solaris/Linux/Windows/AIX
machines

I just want to avoid a lot of manual work in rolling out Chef Client.
Could you please suggest a good approach (creating script or any tool) for
this?

What's required for the install on Solaris/Windows/AIX?

The mechanism we use - we might want to use it again in future to upgrade
the clients- unless chef can do that itself, which I doubt.

Thanks

Devesh

From: Tyler [mailto:tball@getchef.com]
Sent: 01 December 2014 11:33
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Rollout the Chef client

Thats a pretty open ended question.
Download Chef Infra Client | Chef has downloads for
installing Chef. If that doesn’t provide resources, can you provide more
information about what prevents you from installing it through normal
channels?

-T

On Nov 30, 2014, at 8:54 PM, devesh.mehta@accenture.com wrote:

Hi All,

We are implementing Chef. I want to rollout Chef Client in all the exiting
Linux, Solaris and Windows VMs.

Could you please suggest a good approach for this?

Thanks

Devesh

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5

To summarize:
Getting the client is Easy on everything but Windows. Windows takes a
little bit more effort. We don't use images, but do fresh installs via PXE,
but have chef install happen as part of a GPO (Originally we had it as part
of a first-boot script).

Generally I would suggest:
There are Cookbooks (The work is done for you) for Lots and lots of things
already. Before you start writting chef recipes/cookbooks, see if there is
a cookbook already.

Start small. Your doing things manually/some-other-way currently, take over
the jobs one at a time. Keep converting processes (installs,
configurations, etc.) into chef, with an emphasis on everything being
Idempotent (Recipes can be run over and over and your machine will end up
where it needs to be.)

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Galen Emery galen@getchef.com wrote:

Chef can be used to update itself.

When rolling chef into existing infrastructure, the simplest way is to use
knife bootstrap. This is easily script able.

For Unix systems, we make an ssh connection. For Windows, we need winrm
open and we use winrm.

On Windows, if everything is talking to AD, you could use a group policy
to download and install the chef-client to each node. It's cleaner than
knife bootstrap imo.

I'm sure others have more elaborate suggestions, but since this is a one
time task, I try to not spend too much time automating the whole thing.

Lastly, the method you use to get chef onto your existing infrastructure
may not be the same to get it onto new infrastructure. I bake chef-client
into my images for future infrastructure.

Hope that helps!

-Mobile Galen
On Dec 1, 2014 1:31 AM, devesh.mehta@accenture.com wrote:

We are planning to implement Chef in our estate. We have around 300+
hosts & VMs which include different versions of OS like
Solaris/Linux/Windows/AIX machines

I just want to avoid a lot of manual work in rolling out Chef Client.
Could you please suggest a good approach (creating script or any tool) for
this?

What's required for the install on Solaris/Windows/AIX?

The mechanism we use - we might want to use it again in future to upgrade
the clients- unless chef can do that itself, which I doubt.

Thanks

Devesh

From: Tyler [mailto:tball@getchef.com]
Sent: 01 December 2014 11:33
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: Rollout the Chef client

Thats a pretty open ended question.
Download Chef Infra Client | Chef has downloads for
installing Chef. If that doesn’t provide resources, can you provide more
information about what prevents you from installing it through normal
channels?

-T

On Nov 30, 2014, at 8:54 PM, devesh.mehta@accenture.com wrote:

Hi All,

We are implementing Chef. I want to rollout Chef Client in all the
exiting Linux, Solaris and Windows VMs.

Could you please suggest a good approach for this?

Thanks

Devesh

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