Overview

Installs application mern-crud on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on Azure.

Required

• Chef server with valid local client configuration. I used Chef Automate for Azure.

This will do the following tasks:

• Install MongoDB and start a localhost instance on port 27017
• Install nodejs
• Install npm
• Install git
• Install nginx as a reverse proxy
• Downloads and deploys application mern-crud

Directions

• Download your Chef Starter Kit, confirm you are able to connect to your Chef Server with knife.
• Clone this repository.
• Upload Cookbooks
• Create nodes
• Bootstrap Node via Chef Linux Azure Extension
• Validate chef-client run.

Create simple Ubuntu Server with ARM template on Azure:

az group deployment create --resource-group YOURRESOURCEGROUPNAME --template-uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/101-vm-sshkey/azuredeploy.json --parameters adminPublicKey="YOUR PUB SSH KEY HERE" adminUsername=USERNAMEHERE