[chef] Re: Re: Installing a Chef Server via the cookbook

[Mark Mzyk < >]

Stephen,

While I'm not clear on using a chef server cookbook to do the install, perhaps pointing you to resources that got Chef client running on FreeBSD will help.

Here is a gist on some of the tweaks done to get the client on FreeBSD:

https://gist.github.com/aglarond/5320940

which also links to this mailing list thread on FreeBSD:

http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef-dev/2013-03/msg00027.html

You might also want to look at the omnibus-chef project to see how the install packages are put together for chef server:

https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-chef-server

(omnibus-chef is the same packaging that is done for the client, see the gist above).

Maybe with these resources you can look at modifying the packaging to support FreeBSD (I realize the server is a much more complicated beast than the client), or perhaps these resources can point to what changes you need to make to get the chef server cookbook updated to support FreeBSD or any other package you want to support.

- Mark Mzyk

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October 11, 2013 10:26 AM

You might want to take a look at the knife-server plugin:
http://fnichol.github.io/knife-server/

Not sure though if your specific platform is supported...

HTH, Torben

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October 11, 2013 10:16 AM

Would it be possible to use the chef server cookbook to install chef on a system which is not one of the few possible platform choices?  I want to run a small chef server at home for experimentation.  I happen to have an older machine that is not a 64-bit platform, but should be just fine to serve a dozen or so client nodes.

 

If so, can someone suggest a series of steps.

 

If not, why not?

 

In a perfect world, I would also like to apply the same approach to install a chef server on a FreeBSD system.

 

 

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