Preparing Solaris 11 for Chef, especially Chef Kitchen(Ruby Gem’s) For Solaris 11 to be able to run / use Chef Kitchen, you might need to follow the below installation perpetrations. Note: The notes below extend the article – Using chef kitchen docker build behind corporate proxy firewall pkg install ruby Packages to install: 2 Mediators …
What to configure if Docker build or the Kitchen-Docker driver is behind a Corporate Proxy. While working with Docker builds and more specific Kitchen(using the Docker driver, not the default vagrant) behind a Corporate Proxy, I wasn’t able to complete a successful docker/kitchen image build. The problem was clearly related to Docker (or Kitchen) build …
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Installing Managing Docker 17.03.1-ce On The Latest Ubuntu Beta Updating Ubuntu to 17.04 First I am going to upgrade Ubuntu from 16.10 to 17.04 Requirements for the upgrade is below. Install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed Make sure the Prompt line in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades is set to normal Run do-release-upgrade -d The …
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Below is an example configuration, using Ubuntu as the Chef server, as well as Ubuntu or Solaris (11/12) as the Chef Client. Chef Server Installation and Configuration First lets download the the Chef Ubuntu pkg. wget https://web-dl.packagecloud.io/chef/stable/packages/ubuntu/trusty/chef-server-core_12.12.0-1_amd64.deb # Now install the pkg dpkg -i chef-server-core_12.12.0-1_amd64.deb Once the installation is completed, the official docs stat to …
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This is the second post on how to configure the Puppet server/client on Solaris. The Solaris Puppet configuration is mostly the same as the regular Puppet, but with a few exceptions. First lets add a new facts to facter cat /usr/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/env.rb Facter.add(‘environment’) do setcode do environment = “production” end end Now lets verify the new …
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Below you will find how to install & configure Puppet server on Solaris. Part of my DevOps effort I am testing Puppet and Chef server, especially how they work with a Solaris environment. Note: Part of the documentation below is Solaris specific This guide is using puppet version 4.7 How to install puppet (server and …
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