CHAKE-ITAMAE(7)

✨ chake-itamae(7) — the vibe ✨

okay bestie, so you know chake-itamae? it lives in the Miscellaneous Information Manual section, and it's a whole lil plugin for chake. basically it lets chake go configure your nodes using itamae. iconic. let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

chake-itamae — configure chake nodes with itamae ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, this configuration manager? it just runs itamae(1) against your nodes. that's the whole thing. no cap. it's giving "small but mighty" energy fr fr 🫶

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🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

okay so the itamae configuration manager needs exactly one key called itamae, and the value has to be a list of strings — that list is the recipes you want applied to the node when converging. literally that's it, no notes 💀

host1.mycompany.com:
  itamae:
    - cookbooks/basic/default.rb
    - roles/server.rb
  service1:
    option1: "here we go"

now here's the cute part 🧚 — any extra configuration you shove under host1.mycompany.com gets saved into a JSON file and handed over to the itamae --node-json option on the command line. so for the config above, the JSON file it produces looks like this:

{
  "itamae": [
    "cookbooks/basic.rb",
    "roles/server.rb"
  ]
  ,
  "service1": {
    "option1": "here we go"
  }
}

(yes the comma is on its own line, that's just how it comes out, we don't question the comma ✋😭)

and then inside your itamae recipes you can grab all those values with the node object. like so:

template "/etc/service1.conf.d/option1.conf" do
  variables option1: node["option1"]
end

see? node["option1"] and boom, your value's right there. slay 🔥

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🦋 BOOTSTRAPPING 🦋

the tea on bootstrapping is that there is very little of it for this configuration manager. why? because itamae needs literally zero setup on the node side — the Ruby code in your recipes is interpreted locally, not on the nodes. main character behavior honestly 👑

so during bootstrapping, the only thing that happens is the node hostname getting set according to your chake configuration. that's the entire to-do list. periodt 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• chake(1) — go read that one too bestie, iykyk

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okay that's the whole page!! it's from the Miscellaneous Information Manual, and this lil cutie was dated August 2026 ✨ mwah, go configure something gorgeous, ily, bye 💖🎀🦋