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 is 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 --ssh-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-16.04
driver:
image_project: ubuntu-os-cloud
image_family: ubuntu-1604-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: