[chef] Re: Omnibus Chef Server using nginx, postgres and rabbitmq community cookbooks

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Jun 18, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Jordi Llonch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am planning to run Chef-server and other services into a single node that 
> use nginx, postgres and rabbitmq.
> 
> I plan to bootstrap this node with chef-solo with a runlist like:
> 
> * recipe[nginx]
> * recipe[postgres]
> * recipe[rabbitmq]
> * recipe[whatever::customize_chef-server_rb]
> * recipe[omnibus_updater]
> 
> Is that a good approach/best practice? Is there another suggestion?

Omnibus server packages include 100% of their dependencies, you don't need 
anything, nor do you need to use chef to set it up (it uses chef-solo under 
the hood to power chef-server-ctl reconfigure). Just install the deb or rpm 
and you are all set.

--Noah