Meetup Slides for San Antonio Chef Users Meetup, Jun 2014 - Topic: Chef Metal

1. San Antonio Chef Users
June 2014
SAChefUsers
Hart Hoover / Josh O'Brien
@SAChefUsers
@hhoover @OBrienCommaJosh

2. Welcome!

3. Who are we?
Hart Hoover

4. Who are we?
Josh O'Brien

5. Announcements!
Other interesting Meetups?
Who's hiring?
Recent Chef News

6. In the next 5
minutes meet
someone new.

7. Chef Metal
Introduced at ChefConf 2014

8. What does Chef Metal do?
Provides a 'machine' resource
Allows cluster management in Chef
VERSION CONTROL

9. Driver Driven Development
SSH: Bare Metal
chef-metal-fog: Cloud
Vagrant: Testing VMs
LXC / Docker: Containers
vSphere: VMWare

10. Driver Driven Development
SSH: Bare Metal
chef-metal-fog: Cloud
Vagrant: Testing VMs
LXC / Docker: Containers
vSphere: VMWare

11. Basic Chef Metal
machine 'db' do
recipe 'mysql'
end
machine 'web1' do
recipe 'apache'
end

12. More Advanced Chef Metal
machine 'db' do
recipe 'apt'
recipe 'mysql'
recipe 'application_cookbook::db_master'
tag 'dbmaster'
notifies 'converge', 'machine[web]', 'delayed'
end
machine 'web' do
recipe 'apt'
recipe 'apache'
recipe 'application_cookbook::webapp'
tag 'webserver'
attributes(
rackspace: {
cloud_credentials: {
username: Chef::Config[:rackspace_api_username],
api_key: Chef::Config[:rackspace_api_key]
}
}
)
action 'nothing'
end

13. Batch Mode
machine 'db' do
recipe 'mysql'
end
machine 'web1' do
recipe 'apache'
end

14. Batch Mode
machine_batch do
machine 'db' do
recipe 'mysql'
end
machine 'web1' do
recipe 'apache'
end
end

15. Cloud Recipe Walkthrough
node.set['build-essential']['compile_time'] = true
include_recipe 'build-essential'
chef_gem 'chef-metal' do
version '0.12.1'
action 'install'
end
chef_gem 'chef-metal-fog' do
version '0.6.1'
action 'install'
end
require 'chef_metal'
require 'chef_metal_fog'
require 'cheffish'
require 'fog'

16. Cloud Recipe Walkthrough
with_driver 'fog:Rackspace:https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0',
compute_options: {
rackspace_api_key: Chef::Config[:rackspace_api_key],
rackspace_username: Chef::Config[:rackspace_api_username],
rackspace_region: Chef::Config[:rackspace_region]
}
fog_key_pair metal-key
with_machine_options ssh_username: 'root',
bootstrap_options: {
key_name: metal-key,
flavor_id: 'performance1-2',
image_id: 'ffa476b1-9b14-46bd-99a8-862d1d94eb7a'
}

17. Cloud Recipe Walkthrough
# Read Chef Config from knife.rb
with_chef_server Chef::Config[:chef_server_url],
client_name: Chef::Config[:node_name],
signing_key_filename: Chef::Config[:client_key]

18. DEMO

19. Thank you!
Hart Hoover @hhoover
SAChefUsers @SAChefUsers