Hi Folks, I’m writing this post to share – on how we used CloudFormation to manage AWS resources and exploited AWS CloudFormation application bootstrap helper scripts to register EC2 machines with Chef server for automation. AWS CloudFormation’s templates describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run your application. To […]
View PostWith the new version of Chef we have more options and more features and an even better knife status command, which brings us to the discussion at hand which is how to alert for stale nodes on Chef using Nagios:- The knife status command is used to display a brief summary of nodes on a […]
View PostWe shall be using the knife-essentials plugin to upgrade from Chef 10 to Chef 11. Prerequisites To upgrade, you need a live Chef 10 and Chef 11 server, and a knife workstation that can hit them both, loaded with the latest knife-essentials. 1. To install Chef 11, follow instructions here. Note: If we are going […]
View PostOhai is a tool which is used by chef-client to obtain information about the node’s platform detail, networking usage, memory usage, processor usage , kernel data , host names, fully qualified domain names and other configuration. It also has command line tool which displays the data in Json. ohai | head -4 { "languages": { […]
View PostHow to run AWS Lambda container images using the Serverless Framework
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