VMware and Chef, What's the Ecosystem Like, Where Does Everything Fit?
summary
Claims concrete integrations and migrations: Chef provides multiple plugins that actually provision and configure vCenter, vRA and vRO—knife-vsphere/knife-vcenter, kitchen-vcenter, kitchen-vra—and Test Kitchen and Terraform can drive provisioning pipelines; don't bake Chef client into templates because Test Kitchen installs current clients; OVA deployments of Chef Server and Chef Automate A1/A2 (beta tested) exist for air‑gapped installs; Inspec runs continual compliance and can validate ESXi and NSX; support targets vCenter 6.5 now and vCenter 6.7 validation soon.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:36VMware and Chef
- 2:32Chef Workflow
- 3:24Where Does Everything Fit
- 6:23Integrations
- 7:09Blueprints
- 9:22Chef Platform
- 10:23Best Practices
- 13:22Future Plans
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