[chef] apache2 cookbook: updated tests, apache 2.4

[Sander van Zoest < >]

Hi,

At OneHealth, we have been running our own fork of the apache2 cookbook in production since last year that added support for Apache 2.4 release and improvements in configuring SSL.

As you may or may not know in early April, my company OneHealth Solutions took over maintenance of the apache2 cookbook. We have a lot of interest in simplifying the cookbook into more of a library cookbook focused on the core apache2 web server as provided by the ASF incorporating their best practices across all platforms.

To incorporate apache 2.4 support required a lot of changes* in the core package itself, but most package builders also took this as a chance to make significant changes to the way the packages are configured and build. On our fork, we were primarily concerned with Ubuntu LTS and less so on other platforms. For the community version, we wanted to make sure we had chefspec and serverspec integration tests in place to ensure we were delivering a quality cookbook that tests beyond our own needs.

Currently, we plan to do one more release with the tests included followed by the release a major version with apache 2.4 support. We would appreciate some feedback on our apache 2.4 work.

Please try out the COOK-3900 branch and file github issues with anything you may find.

You can also find us on https://gitter.im/onehealth-cookbooks/apache2 if you would like to chat in more real time.

Current thoughts on a road map is as follows:

• v1.11 - update with latest test framework and minor bug fixes
• v2.0   - major update with apache 2.4 support
• v2.1   - minor update with SSL improvements, close out any Opscode JIRA tickets
• v3 and beyond - splitting out non-standard modules into their own cookbooks, definitions to LWRPs, etc.
  

We would love to hear your thoughts.

* http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html

--  Sander