/pi_chef_bootstrap

Scripts for installing Chef on a Raspberry Pi

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Raspberry Pi Chef Bootstrap

Scripts I used to Bootstrap a Pi to run Chef

Chef installation is based off of - https://github.com/facastagnini/raspberry-bitcoin/blob/master/bootstrap.sh

Usage

  1. Prepare the Pi by installing Raspbian and enabling SSH using raspi-config - https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentat\ion/remote-access/ssh/

  2. SSH in and create a /chef/ dir with the appropriate permissions

  3. Use bootstrap_node.sh to SCP the files onto the Pi, it takes 1 argument the IP address of the Pi to SCP the files onto

  4. Run install_chef.sh to setup the Pi for Chef'ing, this will

    1. Enable swap (Chef will run out of memory on any reasonably sized cookbook without this)
    2. Install Ruby 2.5.3 by building it from source (at the time of making this a new enough version of Ruby to run Chef 14 wasn't available in apt)
    3. Install Chef as a ruby gem

  5. Modify bootstrap.json to contain the correct run list

  6. Modify client.rb to contain the correct cookbook_path

  7. Run chef-client in local mode sudo chef-client -z -j bootstrap.json -c client.rb