This is a sample to show how Chef can be used to configure a Java environment.
The Vagrantfile can be used to provision the Java application on a virtual machine managed by Virtual Box. See http://vagrantup.com/ . To see the application running just use: vagrant up
Another possibility is to provision the application using chef solo. The script install.sh does that.
The web application is located in cookbooks/webapp/files/default .
Look at roles/tomcatserver.json to figure out which recipes are run and how they are customized. The cookbooks are taken from the Opscode's Open Source repository.
The directory .chef contains a simple knife.rb that must be adjusted to be used with knife.
To use it:
- Install Knife - see http://docs.opscode.com/install_workstation.html
- Install the EC2 plug in - see dazu http://docs.opscode.com/plugin_knife_ec2.html
- Upload the cookbooks using
knife cookbook upload –a - Upload the role with
knife role from file roles/tomcatserver.json - Now create a new server with
knife ec2 server create -r 'role[tomcatserver]' -i .chef/AmazonPEM.pem -r 'role[tomcatserver]'