chef-fanfare

Description

Data-driven application hosting.

Usage

Server Recieving Deployed Applications

Include recipe[fanfare::applications] in your run_list and add a data bag item in the fanfare_apps data bag for each application you want deployed into your infrastructure. See the Data Bag section for more details.

Server Hosting Application Databases

Include recipe[fanfare::databases] in your run_list and and add a data bag item in the fanfare_apps data bag for each application you want deployed into your infrastructure. See the Data Bag section for more details.

Requirements

Chef

Tested on 0.10.8 but newer and older version should work just fine. File an issue if this isn't the case.

Platform

The following platforms have been tested with this cookbook, meaning that the recipes and LWRPs run on these platforms without error:

• ubuntu (10.04)

Please report any additional platforms so they can be added.

Cookbooks

This cookbook depends on the following external cookbooks:

• postgresql (Opscode)
• mysql (Opscode)
• database (Opscode)
• nginx (Opscode)
• user
• runit (Opscode)

Installation

Depending on the situation and use case there are several ways to install this cookbook. All the methods listed below assume a tagged version release is the target, but omit the tags to get the head of development. A valid Chef repository structure like the Opscode repo is also assumed.

From the Opscode Community Platform

To install this cookbook from the Opscode platform, use the knife command:

knife cookbook site install fanfare

Using Librarian-Chef

Librarian-Chef is a bundler for your Chef cookbooks. Include a reference to the cookbook in a Cheffile and run librarian-chef install. To install Librarian-Chef:

gem install librarian
cd chef-repo
librarian-chef init

To use the Opscode platform version:

echo "cookbook 'fanfare'" >> Cheffile
librarian-chef install

Or to reference the Git version:

cat >> Cheffile <<END_OF_CHEFFILE
cookbook 'fanfare',
  :git => 'https://github.com/fnichol/chef-fanfare', :ref => 'v0.1.2'
END_OF_CHEFFILE
librarian-chef install

Using knife-github-cookbooks

The knife-github-cookbooks gem is a plugin for knife that supports installing cookbooks directly from a GitHub repository. To install with the plugin:

gem install knife-github-cookbooks
cd chef-repo
knife cookbook github install fnichol/chef-fanfare/v0.1.2

As a Tarball

If the cookbook needs to downloaded temporarily just to be uploaded to a Chef Server or Opscode Hosted Chef, then a tarball installation might fit the bill:

cd chef-repo/cookbooks
curl -Ls https://github.com/fnichol/chef-fanfare/tarball/v0.1.2 | tar xfz - && \
  mv fnichol-chef-fanfare-* fanfare

As a Git Submodule

A dated practice (which is discouraged) is to add cookbooks as Git submodules. This is accomplished like so:

cd chef-repo
git submodule add git://github.com/fnichol/chef-fanfare.git cookbooks/fanfare
git submodule init && git submodule update

Note: the head of development will be linked here, not a tagged release.

Recipes

default

This recipe is a no-op and does nothing.

applications

Processes a list of application deployment targets (collectively called ports) with data drawn from a data bag. The default data bag is fanfare_apps. This recipe includes default.

Use this recipe on your node if it is recieving deployed applications (i.e. it is an application server).

databases

Processes a list of databases to be managed with data drawn from a data bag. The default data bag is fanfare_apps. This recipe includes default.

Use this recipe on your node if it hosting the database resources (i.e. it is a database server).

Attributes

root_path

The base path into which all applications are deployed.

The default is "/srv".

default_db_type

The database type to be used if not set in an application data bag item.

The default is "postgresql".

default_app_type

The application type to be used if not set in an application data bag item.

The default is "rails".

first_http_port

The starting HTTP port number for populating Foreman .env files.

The default is 8000.

default_env_path

The intial PATH that will be used by all Foreman managed processes..

The default depends on the platform.

http/ssl_certs_path

The base path where all public SSL certificate keys are located.

The default is /etc/ssl/certs.

http/ssl_private_path

The base path where all private SSL keys are located.

The default is /etc/ssl/private.

Resources and Providers

There are no resources and providers in this cookbook.

Data Bags

...coming soon...

Development

• Source hosted at GitHub
• Report issues/Questions/Feature requests on GitHub Issues

Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested. Ideally create a topic branch for every separate change you make.

License and Author

Author:: Fletcher Nichol (fnichol@nichol.ca)

Copyright 2012, Fletcher Nichol

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.