[chef] Re: standalone installer based on chef

[Tony Burns < >]

I would check out https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-chef-server. The OSS Chef Server installer uses Chef Solo internally to configure itself and its embedded services (nginx, postgresql, etc.). Once you take a deeper dive into that repo you'll see it's actually pretty straightforward to set up your own omnibus installer and pattern it after the way chef server does it.

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Tony Burns

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On Friday, August 23, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Koert Kuipers wrote:

we have all these nice chef scripts to do deployments.

and then sometimes we do installation at a client that does not have a chef server, and we end up writing a little bash script to do the install. that sucks.

would there be a way to embed the chef cookbooks and perhaps chef-solo in a tarball and base a standalone installer on that? would be a very nice way to re-use chef scripts