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Uploading your cookbook to your chef server

So you have a working chef server eh? Great! Now let's actually start working with it. Before you start anything, I need you to run something like this:

root@chef-book:~# knife status
1 minute  ago, chef-book, chef-book, 10.0.2.15, ubuntu 12.04.
root@chef-book:~#

If knife can talk to your chef server you are good to go. If not, hop back a couple sections and try to figure out what broke. Don't worry I'll be here when you get back.

Perfect, lets start off.

Remember that cookbook you created? Way back in Part 2-6 we're gonna upload that one first off. Go ahead and look at your knife.rb for me:

root@chef-book:~# cat .chef/knife.rb
log_level                :info
log_location             STDOUT
node_name                'admin'
client_key     '~/.chef/admin.pem'
chef_server_url          'https://ec2-23-20-27-29.compute-1.amazonaws.com'
syntax_check_cache_path  '/root/.chef/syntax_check_cache'
root@chef-book:~#

If you notice I don't have a cookbook_path directory, i need add one:

root@chef-book:~# cat .chef/knife.rb
log_level                :info
log_location             STDOUT
node_name                'admin'
client_key     '~/.chef/admin.pem'
cookbook_path            ["~/cookbooks"]
chef_server_url          'https://awesome-chef-server.domain.com'
syntax_check_cache_path  '/root/.chef/syntax_check_cache'
root@chef-book:~#

Pretty self explaintory eh? Go ahead and copy that base/ cookbook into the directory that you declare on that line:

root@chef-book:~# cp -r /vagrant/cookbooks/base/ cookbooks/

Lets try and upload the cookbook:

root@chef-book:~# knife cookbook upload base
Uploading base         [0.0.0]
Uploaded 1 cookbook.
root@chef-book:~#

Awesome! You uploaded your first cookbook. Notice the [0.0.0] that is controlled about the metadata.rb file. We'll talk about that is a sec.

Now let's add base to the run_list:

root@chef-book:~# knife node run_list add chef-book base
chef-book:
  run_list: recipe[base]
  root@chef-book:~#

Nice! That looks a tad bit fimilar right? Go ahead and run chef-client now:

root@chef-book:~# chef-client
[2013-10-29T18:44:51+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge...
Starting Chef Client, version 11.6.2
[2013-10-29T18:44:51+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.6.2 ***
[2013-10-29T18:44:52+00:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[base]]
[2013-10-29T18:44:52+00:00] INFO: Run List expands to [base]
[2013-10-29T18:44:52+00:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for chef-book
[2013-10-29T18:44:52+00:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2013-10-29T18:44:52+00:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
resolving cookbooks for run list: ["base"]
[2013-10-29T18:44:52+00:00] INFO: Loading cookbooks [base]
Synchronizing Cookbooks:
  - base
Compiling Cookbooks...
Converging 6 resources
Recipe: base::default
  * package[vim] action install[2013-10-29T18:44:52+00:00] INFO: Processing package[vim] action install (base::default line 2)
 (up to date)
  * package[ntp] action install[2013-10-29T18:44:52+00:00] INFO: Processing package[ntp] action install (base::default line 2)
 (up to date)
  * package[build-essential] action install[2013-10-29T18:44:52+00:00] INFO: Processing package[build-essential] action install (base::default line 2)
 (up to date)
Recipe: base::ssh
  * package[openssh-server] action install[2013-10-29T18:44:53+00:00] INFO: Processing package[openssh-server] action install (base::ssh line 2)
 (up to date)
  * service[ssh] action enable[2013-10-29T18:44:53+00:00] INFO: Processing service[ssh] action enable (base::ssh line 6)
 (up to date)
  * service[ssh] action start[2013-10-29T18:44:53+00:00] INFO: Processing service[ssh] action start (base::ssh line 6)
 (up to date)
  * cookbook_file[/etc/ssh/ssh_config] action create[2013-10-29T18:44:53+00:00] INFO: Processing cookbook_file[/etc/ssh/ssh_config] action create (base::ssh line 11)
 (up to date)
[2013-10-29T18:44:53+00:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 1.207592063 seconds
[2013-10-29T18:44:53+00:00] INFO: Removing cookbooks/base/files/default/ssh_config from the cache; it is no longer needed by chef-client.
[2013-10-29T18:44:53+00:00] INFO: Running report handlers
[2013-10-29T18:44:53+00:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
Chef Client finished, 0 resources updated

CHA-CHING!!!! Congrats you have uploaded your cookbook and run the client to apply it. Awesome!

Lets talk about that metadata.rb.