Chef :11

DevOps Classroom Series – 22/Jan/2021

Just Enough ruby for Chef

• Chef is developed in ruby language, all the recipes which we work are ruby files, so we can use ruby to enhance chef.
• Refer Here for the chef ruby guide
• Ensure you install ruby extension to visual studio code 
• Refer Here for ruby sample

Lets try to apply ruby in our cookbook

• Applied loops for existing cookbook Refer Here
• Now lets optimize further by create a new recipe called as lamp Refer Here
• Our cookbook still has improvements
  • i’m hardcoding the package names and changes in recipes might lead to new versions so we need to handle this better 
  • During every convergance our apache server is getting restarted, this should not be the case