As I see it, any recipe should be able to run on an empty machine on its own. So if some recipe A depends on recipe B run before it, I always use include_recipe. For example: 2 cookbooks, tomcat and java. Tomcat requires java. When some user wants to install tomcat, he may have no … Read more
Using the Vagrant plugin vagrant-omnibus worked great for me: vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus You can then simply configure your chef version in the Vagrantfile before doing the provisioning: config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest You can also specify a specific version: config.omnibus.chef_version = ‘11.6.0’
Is there an advantage over CloudInit? Yes, absolutely, many of them! Sure, you can write top to bottom run once CloudInit scripts to provision a server. But what happens when you need to change a configuration file, add a user, update a package, or install a new package? You will end up logging into servers … Read more