chef_container.md

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Run the following in a container

1. apt-get update
2. apt-get install ssh vim
3. passwd Give a password
4. vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config change the line 'PermitRootLogin prohibit-password' to 'PermitRootLogin yes'
5. service ssh start
6. Come out of the container & run docker ps -a. Copy the running container id
7. run in a different terminal docker commit <id> <give a name>

From the host

1. Use the committed image to create more containers as nodes
2. Get the ip address of the container from /etc/hosts
3. Run bootstrap command with the host ip like knife bootstrap ip-address -x root -P root -N "node_name"
4. Container is now registered as node, check from chef manage console
5. Create recipes & runbooks similar to the procedure for virtualmachine node
6. Attach container & run chef-client to run the runbook