Chef and Google
Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services that run on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube. Alongside a set of management tools, it provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning. This page outlines the different tools that can be used to integrate Chef with the Google Cloud Platform.
knife-google
This plugin gives knife the ability to create, bootstrap, and manage Google Compute Engine (GCE) instances.
Authentication and Authorization
knife-google relies on the Google Auth Library to handle authentication to the Google Cloud API. The auth library expects to find a JSON credentials file located under ~/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json.
The easiest way to create this is to download and install the Google Cloud SDK and run the gcloud auth application-default login command, which will create the credentials file for you.
If you already have a file you’d like to use that’s in a different location, set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable with the full path to that file.
These are the necessary settings for your config.rb file:
knife[:gce_project] = 'my-test-project' knife[:gce_zone] = 'us-east1-b' Usage Examples
Create a server:
knife google server create test-instance-1 --gce-image centos-7-v20160219 \ --gce-machine-type n1-standard-2 --gce-public-ip ephemeral --connection-user myuser \ --identity-file /Users/myuser/.ssh/google_compute_engine Delete multiple servers:
knife google server delete my-instance-1 my-instance-2 --purge List all servers:
knife google server list kitchen-google
A test kitchen driver for Google Cloud Platform.
Usage Examples
The following is a basic kitchen.yml example:
--- driver: name: gce project: mycompany-test zone: us-east1-c email: me@mycompany.com tags: - devteam - test-kitchen service_account_scopes: - devstorage.read_write - userinfo.email provisioner: name: chef_zero transport: username: chefuser platforms: - name: centos-7 driver: image_project: centos-cloud image_name: centos-7-v20170124 - name: ubuntu-18.04 driver: image_project: ubuntu-os-cloud image_family: ubuntu-1804-lts - name: windows driver: image_project: windows-cloud image_name: windows-server-2012-r2-dc-v20170117 disk_size: 50 suites: - name: default run_list: - recipe[COOKBOOK::default] attributes: