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8 years ago As you start with chef, you will find that there are 2 ways to use cookbooks.
- community cookbooks (override attributes in your role/environment)
- library cookbooks ( also called LWRP/HWRP. They use custom resources)
This is a library cookbook in that it isn't intended to be used directly. Instead it gives you a resource called 'domain_join' that you can include in your wrapper cookbook.
I'm on mobile at the moment as I'm out of town, so I'm limited in the examples I can give.
The basic usage would be this:
- create a wrapper cookbook 'my-ad-join'
- include 'ad-join' in your metadata.rb and/or berksfile
- create a recipe in your wrapper that uses the 'domain_join' resource. There is an example of this in https://github.com/NetDocuments/ad-join-cookbook/blob/master/recipes/example_simple.rb
Im testing out some simple CHEF cookbooks pushing to a test node to join my domain. When running the script it runs all then stops here.
[2016-03-10T19:12:32+00:00] INFO: * Chef 12.8.1 * [2016-03-10T19:12:32+00:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 3724 [2016-03-10T19:13:03+00:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[ad-join]"] from CLI options [2016-03-10T19:13:03+00:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[ad-join]] [2016-03-10T19:13:03+00:00] INFO: Run List expands to [ad-join] [2016-03-10T19:13:03+00:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for cheftest [2016-03-10T19:13:03+00:00] INFO: Running start handlers [2016-03-10T19:13:03+00:00] INFO: Start handlers complete. [2016-03-10T19:13:04+00:00] INFO: Loading cookbooks [ad-join@4.8.0, windows@1.39.2, chef_handler@1.3.0] [2016-03-10T19:13:04+00:00] INFO: Storing updated cookbooks/ad-join/resources/domain_join.rb in the cache. DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle
[2016-03-10T19:13:05+00:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 1.5312525 seconds [2016-03-10T19:13:05+00:00] INFO: Running report handlers [2016-03-10T19:13:05+00:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
Do you have any step by step for beginners in the DevOps for this, as this would be very important cookbook I'd love to use moving forward to assist with automation of servers joining my domain.
The only file we should be editing is the domain_join.rb as well in the resources folder correct?