opsworks-linux-demo-cookbook-django Cookbook

This is a reference cookbook to show managing a Django python app on the OpsWorks platform with Chef.

For additional context, you can read the background.

Requirements

Signed up for an AWS account
IAM User credentials
Service Access Permissions enabled on your IAM user
AWS Command Line Tool (AWS CLI) installed on your workstation.
bash or equivalent shell

Platforms

Tested and verified on Amazon Linux 2015.09

Chef

Chef 12+

Cookbooks

application_python
build-essential
poise-python

Usage

run berks package
upload cookbooks-*.tar.gz to the appropriate artifactory repository.
create stack using custom chef cookbooks
create custom layer
add opsworks-linux-demo-cookbook-django as recipe in setup
create app, using e.g. https://github.com/bartTC/dpaste.git as a source
start instance
goto http://public IP of your instance/

License & Authors

Author: Cookbook Engineering Team (cookbooks@chef.io)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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