christopherdeutsch / devbox

my cookbook to bootstrap a Debian or MacOSX development box using chef

devbox-cookbook

This cookbook is designed to set up a development workstation or virtual machine in one step, using chef-zero. This isn't necessarily something you would use on a day-to-day basis (see: test kitchen, chef server, etc.).

Supported Platforms

• Debian 8.5
• MacOS X 10.11

Instructions

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/christopherdeutsch/devbox/master/bootstrap.sh && chmod +x bootstrap.sh && su root -c ./bootstrap.sh

Why?

A lot of the examples out on the 'net for setting up a workstation using chef are old, and rely on using chef-solo instead of chef-zero.

Others are unnecessarily complex; for example, they require adding a workstation as an actual chef node, which is overkill if the node isn't actually going to be managed.

I wanted to create something I could just check out from github and run with a single command, which would install some stuff I needed in a repeatable and testable manner.

It also allows me to maintain this as a real cookbook with no special magic that would prevent regular chef runs, or tools, from working.

How it works

Quick rundown:

1. Uses the chefzero_simple gem to enable running chef-zero locally with minimal hassle
2. Provides a bootstrap.sh shell script to download/install/run everything
3. Provides a zero.json file with the devbox cookbook runlist

License and Authors

Author:: Christopher Deutsch ([email protected]) License:: BSD