This cookbook configures a system to be a standalone Chef Server. It will install the appropriate platform-specific chef-server Omnibus package from Package Cloud and perform the initial configuration.
It is not in the scope of this cookbook to handle more complex Chef
Server topologies like 'tiered' or 'ha'. Nor is it in the scope of
this cookbook to install and configure premium features or other
add-ons. For clustered Chef Server deployments, see
chef-server-cluster.
For primitives for installing chef-server-core or other Chef Server
add-ons, see
chef-server-ingredient.
It is also not in the scope of this cookbook to handle older versions
of Chef Server, such as 11 or 10. For Chef Server 11, see version
2.1.x of this cookbook on Supermarket, or the chef11 branch of this
repository.
This cookbook is tested with Chef (client) 12. It may work with or without modification on earlier versions of Chef, but Chef 12 is recommended.
- chef-server-ingredient cookbook
This cookbook is tested on the following platforms using the
Test Kitchen .kitchen.yml in the repository.
- RHEL/CentOS 5 64-bit
- RHEL/CentOS 6 64-bit
- Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 64-bit
- Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10 64-bit
- Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 64-bit
Unlisted platforms in the same family, of similar or equivalent versions may work with or without modification to this cookbook. For a list of supported platforms for Chef Server, see the Chef documentation.
The attributes used by this cookbook are under the chef-server name
space.
| Attribute | Description | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| api_fqdn | Fully qualified domain name that you want to use | ||
for accessing the Web UI and API. If set to nil or empty string |
|||
(""), the IP address will be used as hostname. |
String | ||
| node['fqdn'] |
configuration | Configuration values to pass down to the underlying
server config file (i.e. /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb). | Hash |
Hash.new
version | Chef Server version to install. If nil, the
latest version is installed | String | nil
addons | Array of addon packages | Array | Array.new
Previous versions of this cookbook had several other attributes used to control the version of the Chef Server package to install. This is deprecated.
This section describes the recipes in the cookbook and how to use them in your environment.
This recipe:
- Installs the appropriate platform-specific chef-server Omnibus package from our Package Cloud repository
- Creates the initial
/etc/chef-server/chef-server.rbfile. - Performs initial system configuration via
chef-server-ctl reconfigure. - Updates the
/etc/hostsfile with theapi_fqdnif that FQDN cannot be resolved.
Chef addons are premium features that can be installed on the Chef Server with the appropriate license. If there are < 25 nodes managed, or a paid subscription license, addons can be installed.
This recipe iterates through the node['chef-server']['addons']
attribute and installs and reconfigures all the packages listed.
The easiest way to get a Chef Server up and running is to install chef-solo (via the chef-client Omnibus packages) and bootstrap the system using this cookbook:
# install chef-solo
curl -L https://www.chef.io/chef/install.sh | sudo bash
# create required bootstrap dirs/files
sudo mkdir -p /var/chef/cache /var/chef/cookbooks
# pull down this chef-server cookbook
wget -qO- https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/chef-server/download | sudo tar xvzC /var/chef/cookbooks
# pull down dependency cookbooks
wget -qO- https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/chef-server-ingredient/download | sudo tar xvzC /var/chef/cookbooks
wget -qO- https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/packagecloud/download | sudo tar xvzC /var/chef/cookbooks
# GO GO GO!!!
sudo chef-solo -o 'recipe[chef-server::default]'
Be sure to download and untar the chef-server-ingredient and
packagecloud cookbooks. They're dependencies of this cookbook.
If you need more control over the final configuration of your Chef
Server instance you can create a JSON attributes file and set
underlying configuration via the
node['chef-server']['configuration'] attribute. See the
attributes/default.rb
Then pass this file to the initial chef-solo command:
chef-solo -j /tmp/dna.json
You can read all about Chef Server's configuration options on the Chef Documentation site.
The chef-server-ctl command is the administrative interface to the
Chef Server. It has its own
documentation. Various
administrative functions provided by chef-server-ctl are not in the
scope of this cookbook. Special/customized needs should be managed in
your own cookbook.
- Author: Seth Chisamore [email protected]
- Author: Joshua Timberman [email protected]
- Copyright 2012-2015, Chef Software, Inc
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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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