Simulating Chef upgrades using Vagrant
Wouldn't it be awesome to simulate production changes quickly? Chances are you're using Chef in production. We'll see how to use both Chef cookbooks with Vagrant, as well as how to simulate Chef version upgrades between environments. This kind of setup is the beginning of a good combination of infrastructure as code.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need the following:
- A working Vagrant installation
- A working VirtualBox installation
- An Internet connection
How to do it…
Let's start with a minimal virtual machine named prod that simply boots a CentOS 7.2, like we have in our production environment:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "bento/centos-7.2" config.vm.define "prod" do |config| ...Get Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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