[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: EC2 AMI with chef-server installed

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

Ohai!

You'll want to make sure you have a domain name set in /etc/hosts,
even it it's just 'localdomain'

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Bootstrap+Chef+RubyGems+Installation#BootstrapChefRubyGemsInstallation-FullyQualifiedDomainNames

HTH,
Dan DeLeo

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Sidney Burks 
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 wrote:
> I tried this script on my local machine at home (Ubuntu 9.10) but it seems
> to fail because Ohai sets 'null' for a domain.  I'm trying this on my home
> computer, which i'd like to access from a dyndns.org address. Anyone have a
> workaround?
>
> http://gist.github.com/354705
>
> -Sidney
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Mike Bailey 
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>  wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the script. It's nice to have an automated (and human readable)
>> script to install chef.
>> My initial password is still not working for the webui so I'm stuck. I've
>> changed it in /etc/chef/server.rb and restarted the webui to no avail.
>> How did you fix the 'lost admin password' problem?
>> thanks,
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:32 AM, John Merrells 
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>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> It took me a few hours to get my first chef server up and running.
>>>
>>> (I found the wiki to be quite confusing. Fewer links and a diagram would
>>> have helped.)
>>>
>>> This is what I did for ubuntu 9.10. Even then I had to contend with the
>>> 'lost admin password' a couple of times.
>>>
>>> I'm in a pretty happy place now, with server, client and knife
>>> working.... trying to get to grips with the cookbooks now... apache2 
>>> openid
>>> doesn't seem to work for me.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> logfile="/root/log.txt"
>>> echo "-----"  >> $logfile
>>>
>>> # New sources.list
>>> cat > /etc/apt/sources.list << EOF
>>> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted
>>> deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted
>>> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted
>>> deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main
>>> restricted
>>> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe
>>> deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe
>>> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe
>>> deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe
>>> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse
>>> deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse
>>> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates multiverse
>>> deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates multiverse
>>> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted
>>> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted
>>> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security universe
>>> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security universe
>>> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security multiverse
>>> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security multiverse
>>> EOF
>>>
>>> # Update System
>>> apt-get -y update
>>>
>>> #installing ruby
>>> apt-get -y install build-essential >> $logfile
>>> apt-get -y install ruby >> $logfile
>>> apt-get -y install ruby-dev  >> $logfile
>>> apt-get -y install libzlib-ruby  >> $logfile
>>> apt-get -y install libyaml-ruby  >> $logfile
>>> apt-get -y install libopenssl-ruby >> $logfile
>>> apt-get -y install runit >> $logfile
>>>
>>> #installing rubygems
>>> wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/69365/rubygems-1.3.6.tgz
>>> tar xzvf rubygems-1.3.6.tgz  >> $logfile
>>> cd rubygems-1.3.6
>>> ruby setup.rb >> $logfile
>>> ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem
>>> gem update --no-ri --no-rdoc --system >> $logfile
>>>
>>> #SEE
>>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Preparing+Debian+and+Ubuntu+for+RubyGems
>>>
>>> apt-get -y install ruby ruby1.8-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8 rdoc ri irb
>>> build-essential wget ssl-cert
>>> gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc chef
>>>
>>> #SEE
>>>  http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Bootstrap+Chef+RubyGems+Installation
>>>
>>> cat > ~/solo.rb <<EOF
>>> file_cache_path "/tmp/chef-solo"
>>> cookbook_path "/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks"
>>> recipe_url "http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz";
>>> EOF
>>>
>>> cat > ~/chef.json <<EOF
>>> {
>>>  "bootstrap": {
>>>    "chef": {
>>>      "url_type": "http",
>>>      "init_style": "runit",
>>>      "path": "/srv/chef",
>>>      "serve_path": "/srv/chef",
>>>      "server_fqdn": "chef.reflectornetwork.com",
>>>      "webui_enabled": true
>>>    }
>>>  },
>>>  "run_list": [ "recipe[bootstrap::server]" ]
>>> }
>>> EOF
>>>
>>> chef-solo -c ~/solo.rb -j ~/chef.json
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Merrells
>>> http://johnmerrells.com
>>> +1.415.244.5808
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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