Chef Server Kit

Using with Vagrant for local development:

• Virtualbox
• Vagrant
• chef-dk
• vagrant-berkshelf
• vagrant-omnibus
• (optional) vagrant-hostsupdater

Installation instructions:

1. Install Virtualbox and latest Vagrant
2. Install chef-dk
3. Install vagrant plugins (vagrant plugin install <plugin_name>):

• vagrant-berkshelf
• vagrant-omnibus
• vagrant-hostsupdater (optional)

4. Configure Vagrantfile and application/environment cookbooks.
5. vagrant up

Running cookbooks without vagrant:

1. Install Chef (you can use Debian repository, omnibus installer or any other installer source)
2. Install chef-dk
3. Copy repository to your server
4. Create production "role" cookbook
5. Vendor cookbooks from Berksfile to cookbooks folder (berks vendor <cookbooks_path>)
6. Create production role (production.rb)
7. Create solo.rb and solo.json files (you can use examples from "chef" folder) Please note: you can use only absolute paths in solo.rb file
8. Run chef-solo (sudo chef-solo -c solo.rb)