Chef-solo

Bootstrapping Ruby or Ruby on Rails server on a Linux/MacOSX machine. Bootstrapping installs prerequisite for RVM, RVM itself, Ruby and Chef. At the end script executes chef-solo using provided JSON configuration file.

Usage

Remotely

./deploy.sh <user>@<host> <json>

json - This is optional. I've put this there so you can have different server setup config files. e.g.: web_server.json

There's empty JSON file, included now. If you need only install RVM, Ruby and Chef, run as:

./deploy.sh ... empty.json

Locally

You can simply bootstrap your local machine if you need to. In this case you'd need root or sudo access and networking setup only. Instead of using ./deploy.sh script, use ./install.sh as:

[sudo] bash ./install.sh <JSON>

Requirements

Clean install server machine with password less SSH access and password less sudo for your user for remote installation.
curl
sudo

Cookbooks

Script uses librarian gem to manage Chef cookbooks. Cookbook's are downloaded into ./cookbooks directory. You can also use own cookbooks, managed manually and installed in ./site-cookbooks.

To use librarian, after updating Cheffile file, run in the repository directory:

 bundle install                       # Installs librarian
 librarian-chef install               # Installs cookbooks

Supported by install.sh

OS's:

MacOS (Darwin)
Debian (Same group as Ubuntu)
RHEL/CentOS with Rpmforge

Tested with

OS
- MacOSX 10.7.x
- CentOS 5.8
- Debian 6.x
- Ubuntu 10.x, 12.x
Ruby
- 1.9.3-pXXX
- 2.0.0-p0, p195
Chef
- 0.10.x, 10.x
- 11.4.x

Configuration

Install.conf

File install.conf Contains fallowing configuration for install.sh script:

RVM version
Ruby version
Chef version
RPM forge release for CentOS/RHEL
Rubygems - as of may/2013, Rubygems need to be downgraded when used with Ruby 2.x and Chef 11. Corresponding section added.

solo.rb

Solo.rb is configuration file for chef-solo binary. Contains PATH information for cookbooks, roles, logs.

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