demo-mcollective cookbook

Demo of an MCollective setup with Chef Server.

Overview

To bring up a cluster with an MCollective Server, Chef Server and a node :

rake

To run the tests:

rake test

To start from scratch and try again:

rake destroy

Access Chef web management UI via:

https://172.18.1.6

with the username vagrant and password vagrant

To display the list of instance names:

rake list

To login to an instance, use kitchen login <instance_name, such as:

kitchen login mcollective-admin-centos65

Prerequisites

2GB free memory for the instances:

• MCollective Admin Instance - 512MB
• Chef Server - 1.5GB
• Node managed by Chef - 512MB

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/misheska-cookbooks/demo-mcollective

Install the Chef Development Kit for your platform.

Install the following virtualization software:

[VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
[Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)

Rake Tasks

List all the tasks with rake -T

• rake converge # run cookbooks against instances
• rake create # create instances
• rake default # create cluster
• rake destroy # destroy instances
• rake list # list instances
• rake spec # Run ChefSpec examples
• rake style # Run all style checks
• rake style:chef # Lint Chef cookbooks
• rake style:ruby # Run Ruby style checks
• rake test # serverspec tests
• rake verify # verify instances

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request