This cookbook runs a workstation setup cookbook installing all the relevant tools and config for me. It's meant to be a practical example of how to use Chef to solve for a common use case (everyone has a Workstation BRUH). This cookbook will demonstrate 2 workflows; the Berks workflow, which will use chef-zero and the Chef Workstation workflow, which will simplify how dependencies are packaged and executed.
Before you get started
Be sure to install ChefDK on your workstation. Chef-DK contains the chef-client so you only need to download the one package. The download can be found here(https://downloads/chef.io/chef-dk)
Berks workflow: You'll run the following to demonstrate the Berks workflow:
- In the current working directory, run
berks vendor cookbooks. This will take the declared cookbook dependencies in the Berksfile and download them to your local repo - You have 2 options to execute the cookbook; a)
sudo chef-client -z -E packages.json -r workstationto run the chef-client in local mode.-Edefines an environment. Environments are a primitive in Chef to provide tunables to your automation (https://docs.chef.io/environments.html#attribute-precedence) b) Your second option is to use the bash wrapper./chef-runwhich concatenates the command for you.
TODO: Add aws and azure setup Show Chef workstation workflow