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Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

You're reading from   Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition Over 80 recipes to automate your cloud and server infrastructure with Chef and its associated toolset

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287947
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matthias Marschall Matthias Marschall
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chef Infrastructure 2. Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs FREE CHAPTER 3. Chef Language and Style 4. Writing Better Cookbooks 5. Working with Files and Packages 6. Users and Applications 7. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure Index

Creating users from data bags


When managing a set of servers, it's important to make sure that the right people (and only they) have access. You definitely don't want a shared account whose password is known by everyone. You don't want to hardcode any users into your recipes either, because you want to separate logic and data.

Chef helps you to manage users on your nodes using data bags for your users and let a recipe create and remove the users, accordingly.

Let's take a look at how you can do that.

Getting ready

Make sure the you have a cookbook named my_cookbook and that the run_list of your node includes my_cookbook, as described in the Creating and using cookbooks section in Chapter 1, Chef Infrastructure.

Create Berksfile in your Chef repository which includes my_cookbook:

mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ subl Berksfile
source 'https://supermarket.chef.io'

cookbook 'my_cookbook', path: './cookbooks/my_cookbook'

Make sure that you have a public SSH key available for your user by following the instructions...

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