[chef] Re: Chef Server on Vagrant

[Karel Minařík < >]

Hi,

you may what to have a look at the repo I posted recently: 
http://git.io/chef-hello-cloud

It does a fully automated Chef Server-based installation in Vagrant. This is 
the relevant part of the Vagrantfile: 
https://github.com/karmi/chef-hello-cloud/blob/master/Vagrantfile#L95-111

Karel

On Oct 16, 2012, at 10:30 AM, srawilliams 
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 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.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Sean