Chef Server
The Chef server (cinc-01-inf-ops.c.gitlab-ops.internal) is hosted in the gitlab-ops GCP project. The server is a
standalone server and runs the embedded PostgreSQL database service locally. This server runs CINC Server v14.
Cookbook
Section titled “Cookbook”The ops-infra-chef role contains the runlist for the Chef server. The gitlab-chef-server cookbook installs and manages the Chef/CINC services and the Let’s Encrypt certificate renewal.
Recovery
Section titled “Recovery”Snapshots of the data disk are taken every four hours. This should allow some capacity to restore the Chef server in the event of the VM being deleted/lost.
It is also possible to re-upload all of the cookbooks we need as well as roles
and environments with the chef-repo project.
- Terraform can rebuild/replace the load balancer, VM, and DNS.
- Bootstrapping the
gitlab-chef-servercookbook or rebuilding from a snapshot can restore the Chef server service. - The
chef-repoproject can re-store cookbooks, environments, roles, etc.