Host system requirements

• Tested on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit
• You should have root or nopasswd sudo access

What's included

Base

• ohai
• hostname
• vim
• git
• postfix

Attributes

• base.packages: ['wget', 'curl', 'htop'] -- these packages will get automatically installed to the host

Deployer

Attributes

• node.users.deployer.user: deployer
• node.users.deployer.shell: /bin/bash

Recipe

Creates node.users.deployer.user user with node.users.deployer.shell.

You can allow different users to login using key based auth by storing ssh public keys in the deployer_authorized_keys data bag, one json file per user:

// data_bags/deployer_authorized_keys/user-name.json
{
  "id": "user-name",
  "key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3..."
}

Postgres

Attributes

• node.rails.application.db.name: node.rails.application.name
• node.rails.application.db.username: node.rails.application.name
• node.rails.application.db.password: 'change-me'

Recipes

recipe[flatstack::postgresql]

• Installs postgresql client
• Installs postgresql ruby bindings

recipe[flatstack::postgresql_server]

• Installs postgresql server.
• Creates database node.rails.application.db.name
• Creates node.rails.application.db.username with node.rails.application.db.password
• Grants full access on node.rails.application.db.name to node.rails.application.db.username

Ruby

Attributes

• node.ruby.version: ruby-1.9.3-p194
• node.ruby.bundler_version: 1.2.4

Recipe

• Installs node.ruby.version as default using rbenv.
• Installs node.ruby.bundler_version.

Rails

Attributes

• node.rails.application.unicorn.version: 4.6.2

Recipe

• Installs nginx

Rails application

Attributes

• node.rails.application.name: nil
• node.rails.application.root_prefix: /var/www
• node.rails.application.domain: example.com
• node.rails.application.environment: production
• node.rails.application.packages: []
• node.rails.application.unicorn.workers: 2
• node.rails.application.unicorn.timeout: 60
• node.rails.application.db.type: postgres
• node.rails.application.db.password: 'change-me'

Recipe

• Creates /var/www/#{node.rails.application.name} as application root
• Creates releases, shared/sockets, shared/log, shared/pids, shared/config folders inside application root, requried for capistrano
• Nginx configuration files
  • /etc/nginx/sites-include/#{node.rails.application.name}.conf
  • /etc/nginx/sites-available/#{node.rails.application.name}.conf
• Creates unicorn:
  • configuration at /var/www/#{node.rails.application.name}/shared/config/unicorn.rb
  • init script at /etc/init.d/unicorn_#{node.rails.application.name}
• Installs node.rails.application.packages packages
• Creates /var/www/#{node.rails.application.name}/shared/config/database.yml

Logentries

Attributes

• logentries.account_key: nil
• logentries.hostname: node.fqdn
• logentries.logs: {}

Recipe

• Installs packages logentries and logentries-daemon
• Registers the node in logentries
• Follows all logs from logentries.logs

ElasticSearch

Attributes

• elasticsearch.version: 0.20.6

Recipe

• Downloads and installs ElasticSearch deb-package of the specified version

Develop

• script/bootstrap
• develop
• rake foodcritic

TODO

• configure iptables
• sshd config
• setup logrotate
• crontab https://github.com/fs/sliceconfig/blob/master/config/etc/crontab
• motd https://github.com/fs/sliceconfig/blob/master/config/etc/motd