[chef] Re: Re: Need confirmation on setting up chef server for the first time using knife-server command

[John Wong < >]

Thank you,

I've looked at the source code. Knife-server seems to rely on Apache2. But the server which I want to use as Chef Server is now running Nginx.

This server holds the LDAP master record, which authenticates all the servers across our lab machines. We initially considered Puppet, but no luck. 

So what should I do?

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Igor Afonov < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

1. Take a look into this bootstrap script it's quite self-descriptive

https://github.com/fnichol/knife-server/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/chef-server-debian.erb

2. You can use your own server. But knife-server has bootstrap script only for debian/ubuntu, however you can create your own very similiar script for other distro.

3. knife server bootstrap [hostname] [options] - see https://github.com/fnichol/knife-server#-knife-server-bootstrap-common-options 

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:52 AM, John Wong < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi guys,

Great software!. My first time deploying a Chef server. Excuse any unreasonable questions :)

1. Is knife-server command only userful for setting up a Chef server on EC2? The descript said "Amazon's EC2 or a standalone server." But the line under the heading "Usage" it said rolling on EC2.
2. Does standalone server means any computer that I own? Not hosted services?

I have a machine called hosts all the authentication across the network we are working on. We want to run chef server on this machine. We made a special user used for chef-related operations.

3. So how do I use knife-server to create chef server on that machine? I haven't installed any chef on any node / server. Do I need chef-solo? The github guide isn't clear to me. Although Opscode has a very well-documented wiki, it's actually quite confusing because there are simply too many options.

Can someone please point out to me what exactly need to be installed in chronological order, please? I've read the doc many times. Thanks.

John