I want developers to be able to check out an infrastructure and build a mirror
of live, locally on vagrant. So that builds closely mirror production I want to
provision a chef server as part of the local build.
So the first step of the run will be to set up and provision a chef server with
all the recipies, roles etc from the chef-repo.
Seems straight forward enough to get the chef server provisioned using
chef-solo and rubygems-install. However I am now stumped as to how to get the
the recipies etc loaded onto the server. Clearly I can do this in a
non-automated way using knife but what i am really after is a seamless
automation, so that the server is built with no manual intervention. I want
the developers to check out the project and with a single command provision the
whole environment including generation of client auth for knife etc.
Has anyone else had experience of doing this and if so can you point me at
documentation or a working example.
are you using the vagrant chef solo provisioner? it should automatically
copy over the chef repos,
you can also set up a shared directory containing the chef repo in an
automated fashion
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:00 PM, srawilliams seanwil@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am a newbie to chef and need help.
I want developers to be able to check out an infrastructure and build a
mirror
of live, locally on vagrant. So that builds closely mirror production I
want to
provision a chef server as part of the local build.
So the first step of the run will be to set up and provision a chef server
with
all the recipies, roles etc from the chef-repo.
Seems straight forward enough to get the chef server provisioned using
chef-solo and rubygems-install. However I am now stumped as to how to get
the
the recipies etc loaded onto the server. Clearly I can do this in a
non-automated way using knife but what i am really after is a seamless
automation, so that the server is built with no manual intervention. I
want
the developers to check out the project and with a single command
provision the
whole environment including generation of client auth for knife etc.
Has anyone else had experience of doing this and if so can you point me at
documentation or a working example.
It's a fantastic guide (written by Jamie Winsor) on the complete iteration
cycle. We've been using this method at Riot for some time now and are very
pleased with the results.
Josiah
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Andy Gale andy@salgo.net wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:30 AM, srawilliams seanwil@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone else had experience of doing this and if so can you point me
at
documentation or a working example.
One way would be to run the following script with the shell provisioner.
I want developers to be able to check out an infrastructure and build a mirror
of live, locally on vagrant. So that builds closely mirror production I want to
provision a chef server as part of the local build.
So the first step of the run will be to set up and provision a chef server with
all the recipies, roles etc from the chef-repo.
Seems straight forward enough to get the chef server provisioned using
chef-solo and rubygems-install. However I am now stumped as to how to get the
the recipies etc loaded onto the server. Clearly I can do this in a
non-automated way using knife but what i am really after is a seamless
automation, so that the server is built with no manual intervention. I want
the developers to check out the project and with a single command provision the
whole environment including generation of client auth for knife etc.
Has anyone else had experience of doing this and if so can you point me at
documentation or a working example.
Or you could use Fletcher Nichol's awesome knife-server plugin [1] for
bootstrapping a Chef Server from scratch. In order to make the bootstrap
process more realistic you could use a bare OS basebox [2] with no
Guestadditons, Ruby or Chef installed. If you do this repeatedly and it
becomes too fine-consuming you might consider to repackage a new basebox
once Chef Server is installed...
I want developers to be able to check out an infrastructure and build a
mirror
of live, locally on vagrant. So that builds closely mirror production I
want to
provision a chef server as part of the local build.
So the first step of the run will be to set up and provision a chef
server with
all the recipies, roles etc from the chef-repo.
Seems straight forward enough to get the chef server provisioned using
chef-solo and rubygems-install. However I am now stumped as to how to
get the
the recipies etc loaded onto the server. Clearly I can do this in a
non-automated way using knife but what i am really after is a seamless
automation, so that the server is built with no manual intervention. I
want
the developers to check out the project and with a single command
provision the
whole environment including generation of client auth for knife etc.
Has anyone else had experience of doing this and if so can you point me
at
documentation or a working example.
Once the Chef server is up and empty, I build up knife commands with
Spiceweasel. You can point it at a Chef repository and it will
generate the necessary commands to upload all the
cookbooks/environments/roles/data bags in the proper dependency order.
(It's role-driven, though, so make sure your roles are in order ... if
a cookbook's not in any roles, it won't get uploaded using this
method!)
You could also do variations on "knife cookbook upload -a" ... "find
roles/ -exec knife role from file {} ;" ... etc.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Torben Knerr ukio@gmx.de wrote:
Or you could use Fletcher Nichol's awesome knife-server plugin [1] for
bootstrapping a Chef Server from scratch. In order to make the bootstrap
process more realistic you could use a bare OS basebox [2] with no
Guestadditons, Ruby or Chef installed. If you do this repeatedly and it
becomes too fine-consuming you might consider to repackage a new basebox
once Chef Server is installed...
I want developers to be able to check out an infrastructure and build a
mirror
of live, locally on vagrant. So that builds closely mirror production I
want to
provision a chef server as part of the local build.
So the first step of the run will be to set up and provision a chef
server with
all the recipies, roles etc from the chef-repo.
Seems straight forward enough to get the chef server provisioned using
chef-solo and rubygems-install. However I am now stumped as to how to
get the
the recipies etc loaded onto the server. Clearly I can do this in a
non-automated way using knife but what i am really after is a seamless
automation, so that the server is built with no manual intervention. I
want
the developers to check out the project and with a single command
provision the
whole environment including generation of client auth for knife etc.
Has anyone else had experience of doing this and if so can you point me
at
documentation or a working example.
Once the Chef server is up and empty, I build up knife commands with
Spiceweasel. You can point it at a Chef repository and it will
generate the necessary commands to upload all the
cookbooks/environments/roles/data bags in the proper dependency order.
(It's role-driven, though, so make sure your roles are in order ... if
a cookbook's not in any roles, it won't get uploaded using this
method!)
You could also do variations on "knife cookbook upload -a" ... "find
roles/ -exec knife role from file {} ;" ... etc.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Torben Knerr ukio@gmx.de wrote:
Or you could use Fletcher Nichol's awesome knife-server plugin [1] for
bootstrapping a Chef Server from scratch. In order to make the bootstrap
process more realistic you could use a bare OS basebox [2] with no
Guestadditons, Ruby or Chef installed. If you do this repeatedly and it
becomes too fine-consuming you might consider to repackage a new basebox
once Chef Server is installed...
I want developers to be able to check out an infrastructure and build
a
mirror
of live, locally on vagrant. So that builds closely mirror production
I
want to
provision a chef server as part of the local build.
So the first step of the run will be to set up and provision a chef
server with
all the recipies, roles etc from the chef-repo.
Seems straight forward enough to get the chef server provisioned using
chef-solo and rubygems-install. However I am now stumped as to how to
get the
the recipies etc loaded onto the server. Clearly I can do this in a
non-automated way using knife but what i am really after is a seamless
automation, so that the server is built with no manual intervention.
I
want
the developers to check out the project and with a single command
provision the
whole environment including generation of client auth for knife etc.
Has anyone else had experience of doing this and if so can you point
me
at
documentation or a working example.