https://github.com/jedi4ever/theseboots

Bootstrapping code for getting ruby, chef, puppet, ... on a brand new server
https://github.com/jedi4ever/theseboots

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Bootstrapping code for getting ruby, chef, puppet, ... on a brand new server

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jedi4ever/theseboots
• Owner: jedi4ever
• Created: 2011-03-22T18:33:12.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-03-22T19:33:00.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-04-10T14:22:19.898Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 97.7 KB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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## The goal

Several projects are implementing bootstrapping a 'vanilla' system:

We all know that installing software and managing it, should be done by config management systems.

But what if you can't run it yet, because you are missing dependencies?

F.i. both [puppet](http://puppetlabs.com), [vagrant](http://vagrantup.com), [chef](http://opscode.com), [veewee](http://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee), [fog](http://github.com/geemus/fog) all have need to bootstrap ruby on machine. 

The goal of this project to a bundle these efforts in a shared gem that can create templates.

An additional step could be to handle the ssh bootstrap itself but that's for the future.

Invoking would be typical:


	bootstrapcode=Theseboots.strap(platform,

		[ "ruby", { version => "1.9.2", type => "source", ... ],

		[ "chef", { version => "0.9.14", type => "gem", ...],

		[ "puppet", { version => "2.6.14", type => "system", ...],



platform would something like "ubuntu-10.10-i386" or "debian-...-x64"

This would result in some bash code that can be execute on a box (potentially over ssh)

Example ubuntu:


apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

apt-get install build-essentials

apt-get install -y build-essential wget zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev

cd /usr/src/local

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org//pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.bz2

tar xjf ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.bz2

cd ruby-1.9.2-p0

./configure

make

make install

gem install chef

apt-get install puppet



- Additional options would be to things like proxies, paths, ....

- Or for python based, do the same

## What about knife bootstrap?

I'm aware that the ['knife bootstrap'](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Knife+Bootstrap) uses scripts that you can extend. But 

- In some cases you don't want to install the dependency of chef (has native gems f.i.)

- I would like to get only puppet going

- I would like to choose the way the scripts is execute: so maybe not chef doing an ssh, but using [rundeck](http://rundeck.org), or fog.ssh or why not vnc or rdp)

- And they can be reused in the java world [jclouds](http://jclouds.org)

## What about rvm?

Rvm does a great job at integrating different version of ruby, BUT it always compiles from source . I know there have been efforts to make it work offline, but still it's compile from source.

This is currently an idea, but I'm going to make a headstart for my [mccloud](http://github.com/jedi4ever/mccloud) and [veewee](http://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee)

Let me know if you want to collaborate on this. 

Patrick

P.S.  I'm not sure where this goes, and it could be that each vendor has to implement it himself, we'll see. Anyway, I'm happy to contribute the scripts if this project becomes obsolete