Chef Server Bootstrap

What this script will do

• Using chef solo to quickly install a chef server instance on CentOS 6.5
• Copy the private key (.pem) files from the chef-server to the local .chef directory. You may use the admin user if you are the only user using this server. client-validator is a required key.
• Create two network interfaces. A NAT interface for internet access. A Host-only interface for consistent connectivity between the workstation with the server and the other VMs

How to use it

• Clone this repo
• Install Vagrant, and Virtual Box
• cp config/local.rb.example config/local.rb | You don't need to change anything if you are not planning to override the default settings.
• From the terminal vagrant up
• Add '192.168.33.10 chefserver' or the overridden LocalConfig::Attr[:ip] to your hosts file
• Add other virtual machines to the same Host-only network if you want them to work with each other.
• Once the machine finishes installing, go to https://chefserver (or https://192.168.33.10) to verify that the server is working. There will be a warning the first time you do this because there is no SSL certificate on this server. This is normal, just add an exception.

Recommended Plugins

• The script still works without any of them. But they will make working Vagrant a bit easier
• vagrant-cachier
• vagrant-vbox-snapshot
• vagrant-vbguest works great most of the time however it's incompatible with base centos-6.5 [issue] therefore it's disabled in this script. The work around involves vagrant ssh into the machine, update the kernel sudo yum -y update kernel, do a full vagrant halt, change config.vbguest.no_install = false before vagrant up again.