From the course: Learning Chef
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Deploy the haproxy cookbook
- [Instructor] Now that you've written the default recipe for your load balancer cookbook, myhaproxy, and uploaded it to your Chef server, we're ready to bootstrap a new node. You might check and make sure you've got all these pieces in place. At this point, we left off running a knife cookbook list in order to make sure that our cookbooks are all on the Chef server and available. You'll see myhaproxy is listed at the 0.1.0 version. Now, I also want to make sure my nodes are ready. You'll see when running knife node list that I have two web servers, the same ones that I've plugged in, their public host names and public IP addresses to our myhaproxy cookbook. Now I'm ready to bootstrap a new node. Do you remember the bootstrapping process? To bootstrap a node, remember, we use the knife bootstrap command and supply the FQDN or the public IP address for this new node. We'll also need to authenticate to it, specify the --sudo option, and we'll give our node a name. I'm going to call it…
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