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

[DV < >]

Yes, actually I was going to write a how-to blog post describing the
process so that others can pick up where I left off - so I'll get on
that shortly.

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Barthélemy Vessemont
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> Can you pur your HA recipes on GitHub :-) I think it can insterest many
> people here.
> Maybe maybe you could grab some help to makes replications working ;)
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> Regards
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> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 3:38 AM, DV 
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>> Great answer, you cleared up all of the confusion I've had. Thank you!
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>> 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.
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>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Lamont Granquist 
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>> > That github cookbook just automates the steps here:
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>> > 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.
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> Barthélemy Vessemont - 
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> Ingénieur en informatique diplômé de l'UTC (Compiègne)



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Best regards, Dmitriy V.