nickbarth / chef-development-server

A Chef Solo kitchen for setting up a Node.js, Nginx, and MongoDB development server.

Chef Server Kitchen

A Chef Solo kitchen for setting up a Node.js, Nginx, and MongoDB development server.

Requirements

Ruby and RubyGems

# Red Hat / CentOS - http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Client+on+CentOS
yum install ruby ruby-devel ruby-ri ruby-rdoc ruby-shadow gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf make curl dmidecode -y

# Ubuntu / Debian - http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Client+on+Ubuntu+or+Debian
apt-get install ruby ruby-dev libopenssl-ruby rdoc ri irb build-essential wget ssl-cert curl -y

Chef Solo Gem

gem install chef --no-ri --no-rdoc

Knife Solo Gem

gem install knife-solo --no-ri --no-rdoc

Librarian Chef

gem install librarian --no-ri --no-rdoc

Usage

Download this kitchen

git clone git://github.com/nickbarth/Development-Server-Kitchen.git

Download cookbooks

librarian-chef install

Setup your connection (Optional)

# vim ~/.ssh/config
Host server
  User root
  Hostname x
  port 22

# setup password-less ssh logins
ssh-keygen
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@server

Prepare server and install cookbooks

knife solo bootstrap server

Debug cookbooks (if needed)

ssh server
cd /tmp/chef-solo/
chef-solo -c /tmp/chef-solo/solo.rb -j /tmp/chef-solo/nodes/server.json

Setup complete

You should now have a fully functional server setup with all specified cookbooks.