[chef] Re: Re: Re: Chef Server on Vagrant

["steve ." < >]

Once the Chef server is up and empty, I build up knife commands with
Spiceweasel.  You can point it at a Chef repository and it will
generate the necessary commands to upload all the
cookbooks/environments/roles/data bags in the proper dependency order.

(It's role-driven, though, so make sure your roles are in order ... if
a cookbook's not in any roles, it won't get uploaded using this
method!)

You could also do variations on "knife cookbook upload -a" ... "find
roles/ -exec knife role from file {} \;" ... etc.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Torben Knerr 
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 wrote:
> Or you could use Fletcher Nichol's awesome knife-server plugin [1] for
> bootstrapping a Chef Server from scratch. In order to make the bootstrap
> process more realistic you could use a bare OS basebox [2] with no
> Guestadditons, Ruby or Chef installed. If you do this repeatedly and it
> becomes too fine-consuming you might consider to repackage a new basebox
> once Chef Server is installed...
>
> [1] http://fnichol.github.com/knife-server/
> [2]
> https://github.com/tknerr/bills-kitchen-repo/blob/master/Vagrantfile#L10-34
>
> Am 16.10.2012 17:02 schrieb "Karel Minařík" 
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>> 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
>>
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