Chef-Starter

This is PRE-ALPHA! For testing only! Please fork and help a project, if you can do better makefile scripting, or found something to fix.

Use-case

Primary use-case I had, is to deploy chef-server from my own workstation with minimal fuss. Also this prolly would be good for initialising new chef repo and setuping workstation too.

Requirements

If you won't follow these requirements, Makefile will fail.

• Currently chef-server provisioning only works in RHEL!
• Proper FQDN on your chef-server! If you're in intranet, set one in /etc/hosts
• You required to have public key in your ~/.ssh/ directory. It will be copied to a chef-server node.
• SUDO enabled unix. Notice: For cloud users: Don't forget to comment #Default requiretty in your sudoers file or else Makefile will fail
• Your sudo user must be the same on all the nodes as server machine (propose for better practise in issue)

Debian/Ubuntu support:

Should work out of the box.

OSX support:

* Install macports
* Install bash via macports (Default bash won't work)

Currently there's no support for homebrew, feel free to contribute.

BUG: there's a strange problem which occurs on my iMac, but never happens on macbook air, with totally indentical version of software. If knife command won't be found when you launched Makefile, add this to your ~/.profile

export GEM_HOME="/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/"
export GEM_PATH="/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/"
export PATH=/opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/bin:$PATH

RHEL support:

System-wide RVM will be installed and ruby will be compiled. If RVM already exists, then ruby will and rubygems will be upgraded. Currently ruby2 is used.

After you run make install and rvm will be installed, you'll have to log-out and log-in to shell again. This is due to environment variables, a requirement from rvm

Configure

Create .makerc

cp .makerc.sample .makerc

Set your chef-server hostname and username, repo path, and you ready to go.

This will setup chef-server and workstation

make install

This will only install chef-solo

make install_solo

Congrats! Now you have ./repo folder ready, it's completely ignored, you can create a git repo out of it.

Usage

Run updates: get cookbooks, upload all cookbooks, update envs/roles/nodes

make # or make update

Create and bootstrap a node

make node

Rebootstrap node

make rebootstrap

Cook specified node, you will be asked to enter node name, and node list will be shown

make cook

Destroy everything that's been generated

make destroy

Remove chef installation on server

make server_destroy