nomsynonso/knife-azure

Chef knife plug-in for Microsoft Azure

Knife Azure

Umbrella Project: Knife

Project State: Active

Issues Response Time Maximum: 14 days

Pull Request Response Time Maximum: 14 days

Description

A knife plugin to create, delete, and enumerate Microsoft Azure resources to be managed by Chef Infra.

NOTE: You may also want to consider using the Azure CLI, this application is written by the Azure team and has many other integrations with Azure. If click here you'll see deeper examples of using the Chef extension and Azure.

Installation

knife-azure comes bundled with Chef Workstation, which can be installed via:

https://downloads.chef.io/chef-workstation/

Modes

knife-azure 1.6.0 onwards supports Azure Resource Manager (preferred). You can easily switch between:

• Resource manager: commands using the Azure Resource Manager API
• Service management: commands using the Azure service management API

They are not designed to work together. Commands starting with knife azurerm use ARM mode, while commands starting with knife azure use ASM mode.

Configuration

1. ARM Configuration
2. ASM Configuration

Detailed Usage

1. ARM Mode
2. ASM Mode

Bootstrap existing VM to install the chef-client using chef-extension

We have added a utility in ARM and ASM to bootstrap existing VM. This will install the chef-client using chef extension on your VM.

1. Bootstrap Doc for ARM Mode
2. Bootstrap Doc for ASM Mode

Contributing

For information on contributing to this project see https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

License

Copyright:: Copyright 2010-2020, Chef Software, Inc.

License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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