As part of our Data Center Automation Services Delivery, we are happy to release a beta Chef Cookbook for UCS Deployments! We consider this cookbook as Stage1, where it helps prepare a UCS environment for Stage 2 (OS Deployment) and Stage 3 (Application/Service turn up). Look for more in the next fews weeks, including updates to ucslib, knife-ucs and a “howto” guide.

For those who maybe new to Chef.

What does our UCS cookbook do? At a high-level:

1. Initial Setup – setup ntp, chassis discovery policy, power-policy, mgmt IP Pool, etc

2. Turn up Server Ports, Uplink Ports, Port Channels.

3. Set VLANS, VSANs

4. Set Pools – Mac, WWPN, WWNN, Server, UUID

5, Set Templates – vNIC, vHBA, Service Profile

6. Create Service Profiles and bind it to a template

7. Associate a Service Profile Template to a Server Pool.

In this example cookbook, we follow a convention and run the Chef recipes per the run_list.

Where can you get it?

Our Github repo and the UCS Cookbook is available here.