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Using Chef to Automate Google Compute Engine

Monday, April 14, 2014

recently publishedChef is betting on Compute Enginecoded businessWhy customers love using Chef and Google Compute EngineCloud-based delivery“Prior to deploying Hosted Chef,” said Meyer, “we did everything manually. It generally took me a couple of weeks to get access to the servers I needed and at least a day to add a new developer. With Chef, I can now add a couple of developers within 20 minutes. Additionally, when we set up a new ad serving system with data bags, the set-up time goes from two to three days to an hour. This is simply one of those tools that you need regardless of what your environment is.” Speed & ScaleFlexibility Community featured partner at this year’s ChefConfChef and Compute Engine: Under the Hoodobtained a Compute Engine accounChef workstationknife-google plugingem install knife-google knife google setupknife'gcutil'Cloud SDK
knife google server create jenkins1 -Z us-central1-a -m n1-highcpu-2 -I centos-6-v20140415 -r 'java,jenkins::master' -x $USER -i $HOME/.ssh/google_compute_engine

Creates a CentOS VM instance in Compute Engine's us-central1-a zone with machine type n1-highcpu-2

Registers it as a node named ‘jenkins1’ with the Chef Server

Configures the node’s run_list attribute as ‘java,jenkins::master’

Uses the ssh protocol to run chef-client with that ‘master’ recipe from the Jenkins community cookbook on the new system.

Chef Client finished, 19/21 resources updated in 40.207903203 secondssearch# Commands like this destroy unneeded nodes knife google server delete tester1 -y --purgeGCE page