[chef] Re: Will the real chef-server cookbook please stand up?

[DV < >]

Great answer, you cleared up all of the confusion I've had. Thank you!

We've written a wrapper cookbook to help with setting up HA Chef by
splitting the services onto separate hardware and enabling replication
for Postgres/Solr/Bookshelf. We ended up with 4 types of hosts (4th
being the web UI / API server).

However, we couldn't use the postgresql recipe that comes with
chef-server cookbook because it doesn't have any attributes to set up
replication. Also, once we've modified all the log_directory
attributes, "chef-server-ctl tail" broke.. I wonder if someone
somewhere would like to know more about this.

We've managed to avoid modifying chef-server cookbook to fit our
purposes, though, which says that the authors have done a great job at
making it customizable enough.

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Lamont Granquist 
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 wrote:
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> That github cookbook just automates the steps here:
>
> http://docs.opscode.com/install_server.html
>
> That would be appropriate to feed into chef-solo or chef-client -z in order
> to automate building a chef-server.  You can also just run this:
>
> curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh ;| sudo bash -s -- -P server
>
> The cookbooks inside the chef-server RPM that are run via `sudo
> chef-server-ctl reconfigure` are "internal" to the chef-server-ctl "API" and
> their sources are here:
>
> https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-chef-server/tree/master/files/chef-server-cookbooks
>
> TL;DR: "yo dawg, i put some chef around your chef to run your chef" or
> something like that...  but I'm too old for memes...
>
>
> On Tue Apr  8 14:56:58 2014, DV wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Just wondering - I'm seeing a very barebone version of chef-server
>> cookbook at https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-server and a
>> fully-functional one shipped with the Chef 11 RPM. Is there any reason
>> why Github doesn't contain the RPM version?
>>
>
>



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Best regards, Dmitriy V.