Learn about the Wavefront Wavefront Chef Server Integration.
Wavefront Chef Server Integration
This integration is a cookbook for installing and configuring Python, pip, Telegraf, and the Wavefront proxy on a Chef client. The instructions include all commands you run, in sequence.
Wavefront Chef Server Setup
Step 1. Download and extract the Chef cookbook
On a Chef client that is set up to push to your Chef server, run the following commands:
knife cookbook site download wavefront
tar xvf wavefront-0.1.1.tar.gz
Step 2. Modify attributes.rb to include your API key
cd wavefront/attributes
sed -i 's/<YOUR_API_KEY>/YOUR_API_TOKEN/g' wavefront/attributes/default.rb
Step 3. Upload the Wavefront cookbook
knife cookbook upload wavefront
Step 4. Add the cookbook to your client’s run list
This needs to be executed only once per client.
knife node run_list add NODE_NAME wavefront
Step 5. Run the cookbook
sudo chef-client