ChefSolo

This is a bare minimum Vagrant project that creates a single page web app. The main purpose is to demonstrate how a working project can be created with minimum set of recipes.

App is deployed using Chef Solo. It will install apache and php5 and create/enable a virtual host which can be accessed via http://mytest.wrk/ It should display the output of phpinfo() function

Details

This app uses two standard Opscode cookbooks:

• apt cookbook provides means for updating the apt cache and adding package repositories if needed;
• apache2 cookbook provides means for creating virtual hosts.

There's also a custom cookbook named mytest.wrk, which actually installs the app.

How to keep the list of cookbooks short

In general, use package resource to install software packages, for example, you can install php by simply adding this code to your recipe:

package "php5" do
    action "install"
end

You don't need to include recipes unless you want something more complicated than just installing a package. For example, php package helps in managing pear channels and installing pear packages and apache2 package helps creating apache configuration files and enabling/disabling virtual hosts.