Wombat

Wombat (wombat-cli) is a gem that builds and creates demo environments using cloud-specific deployment tools like CloudFormation. The demo environments are comprised of instances built from the included packer templates:

Chef Server
Chef Automate
Chef Compliance
N Automate Build Node(s)
N Infrastructure Nodes
N Windows Workstation

Pre-requisites

We'll need a few things before we can get started with Wombat.

Install and Configure ChefDK

Follow the instructions at https://docs.chef.io/install_dk.html to install and configure ChefDK (0.19.6+) as your default version of Ruby.

Note: If not using ChefDK, Ruby 2.3+ is required.

Install Packer

Downloads are here: https://www.packer.io/downloads.html. The binary must be in $PATH for wombat build

Download your Automate license key

Automate requires a valid license to activate successfully. If you do not have a license key, you can request one from your CHEF account representative.

You will need to have the delivery.license file present inside the files/ directory of your wombat project.

Usage

From Rubygems

If you are a developer or you prefer to install from Rubygems, we've got you covered.

Add Wombat to your repository's Gemfile:

gem 'wombat-cli'

Note: if using Bundler, make sure to bundle install and prefix commands as appropriate, ex bundle exec wombat

Or run it as a standalone:

$ gem install wombat-cli

Get Started with Wombat

$ wombat init

This will generate a wombat skeleton project and example configuration file wombat.yml

NOTE: workstation-passwd must meet the minimum Microsoft Complexity Requirements

NOTE: The googlecompute and azure builders exist but not all images will build nor is there deployment support for either at this time.

Build images with Packer

# build one or more templates
$ wombat build [-o BUILDER] TEMPLATE [TEMPLATE2]

# build all templates (sequentially)
$ wombat build [-o BUILDER]

# build all images (parallel)
$ wombat build [-o BUILDER] --parallel

NOTE: If the builder is not provided it defaults to amazon-ebs

Deploy CloudFormation template

via AWS CloudFormation Web UI

Upload the created template from the cloudformation directory.

via CLI

# Deploy CloudFormation template
$ wombat deploy --update-lock --update-template
==> Updating wombat.lock
==> Generate CloudFormation JSON: STACK.json
==> Creating CloudFormation stack
Created: arn:aws:cloudformation:us-east-1:862552916454:stack/STACK/2160c580-713e-11e6-b392-50a686e4bb82

# Deploy an already generated template (pre-existing template)
# where STACK is the name of the template (w/o file extention) in the `stack_dir`
wombat deploy STACK

# Get Windows Workstation(s) IP(s)
# where STACK is the name of the running CloudFormation stack
$ wombat outputs STACK
WindowsWorkstation (i-xxxxxxxx) => XX.XXX.XX.XXX

TODO

Complete support for Azure
Complete support for Google Cloud Engine

From the AWS CloudFormation UI, select the Outputs tab for the desired stack. Use an RDP compatible client to login to the workstation with the embedded credentials.

LICENSE AND AUTHORS

Copyright:: 2016 Chef Software, Inc

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