This is the official Opscode Knife plugin for Google. This plugin gives knife the ability to create, bootstrap, and manage servers on the Google Cloud. This plugin uses the [gcutil]developers.google.com/compute/docs/gcutil/ CLI utility from Google.
Be sure you are running the latest version Chef. Versions earlier than 0.10.0 don’t support plugins:
gem install chef
This plugin is distributed as a Ruby Gem. To build and install it, use the rake utility. The rake utility installs the gcutil CLI utility as part of installation:
rake install
Be sure you are running the latest version Chef. Versions earlier than 0.10.0 don’t support plugins:
Follow these instructions to install Chef-Workstation on Windows: http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Workstation+Setup+for+Windows
The gcutil tool can be installed on Windows, via Cygwin.
Install Cygwin with Python Environment: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/gcutil_setup
In Windows, set CYGWINPATH environment variable to point the Cygwin Installation and add %CYGWINPATH%\bin to the PATH environment variable
set CYGWINPATH=<CYGWIN INSTALLATION PATH> set PATH=%CYGWINPATH%\\bin;%PATH%
Use the rake utility to install gcutil CLI utility and the knife plugin
rake install
Run gcutil auth to request a token. This command prints a URL where you can acquire an OAuth 2.0 refresh token for Google Compute.
gcutil auth --project=<your_project_id> Go to the following link in your browser: <link> Enter verification code: # provision a new 2 Core 1GB Ubuntu 10.04 webserver knife google server create --server-name <server-name> -i <SSH Identity Key> -k <SSH Public Key> --project <project-name> --flavor n1-standard-2 --distro chef-full --google-image projects/google/images/ubuntu-10-04-v20120912 -r role[<your role>] -E <your environment>
Additionally the following options may be set in your knife.rb:
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flavor
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image
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distro
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template_file
This plugin provides the following Knife subcommands. Specific command options can be found by invoking the subcommand with a --help flag
Provisions a new server in the Google Cloud and then perform a Chef bootstrap (using the SSH protocol). The goal of the bootstrap is to get Chef installed on the target system so it can run Chef Client with a Chef Server. The main assumption is a baseline OS installation exists (provided by the provisioning). It is primarily intended for Chef Client systems that talk to a Chef server. By default the server is bootstrapped using the ubuntu10.04-gems template. This can be overridden using the -d or --template-file command options.
Deletes an existing server in the currently configured Google Cloud account by the server/instance id. You can find the instance id by entering ‘knife google server list’. Please note - this does not delete the associated node and client objects from the Chef server.
Outputs a list of all servers in the currently configured Google Cloud account. Please note - this shows all instances associated with the account, some of which may not be currently managed by the Chef server.
Outputs a list of all available images public from Google Compute Engine and those that have custom-created in the project.
Outputs a list of all available flavors (available hardware configuration for a server) available to the currently configured Google Compute Engine account. Each flavor has a unique combination of virtual cpus, disk space and memory capacity. This data may be useful when choosing a flavor id to pass to the ‘knife google server create` subcommand.
- Author
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Chirag Jog (<chirag@clogeny.com>)
- Copyright
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Copyright © 2012 Opscode, Inc.
- License
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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 limitations under the License.