https://github.com/tongueroo/baker

Simple way to run chef recipes
https://github.com/tongueroo/baker

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Simple way to run chef recipes

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tongueroo/baker
• Owner: tongueroo
• Created: 2011-01-13T04:23:48.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-01-16T03:46:09.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-14T22:16:44.004Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.markdown

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Baker

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A simple way to run chef recipes on one server.

Install

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gem install baker --source http://gemcutter.org --no-ri --no-rdoc # sudo if you need to



Usage

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I. setup ssh key

Set up your ssh key on the server so you can login into the box without a password.  The gem only supports logging in via a .ssh/config shortcut.  Your .ssh/config should look something like this:


Host server_name

  Hostname     xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

  Port         22  

  User         root



II. install chef on the server

Can install chef on the server by using baker.


$ bake --setup server_name



III. run chef recipes

Create a cookbooks project.  Here's an example of a cookbooks project that can be used to install rails: https://github.com/tongueroo/cookbooks-rails

The cookbooks project structure looks like the following:


├── config

│   ├── node.json

│   └── solo.rb

└── cookbooks

    ├── example_recipe1

    │    └── recipes

    │        └── default.rb

    └── example_recipe2

        └── recipes

            └── default.rb



config/node.json and config/solo.rb are important.  These are the configurations that get passed to the chef run that will tell it which recipes to run.  

config/solo.rb looks like this: 


file_cache_path "/tmp/baker"

cookbook_path "/tmp/baker/recipes/cookbooks"



config/node.json looks like this:


{

  "ec2": true,

  "environment": {"name":"production"},

  "mysql_root_password":"whatever",

  "packages":[

    {"name": "git-core"},

    {"name": "curl"}

  ],

  "gems":[

  	{"name": "rails", "version": "3.0.3"},

    {"name": "bundler"}

  ],

  "recipes":[

    "example_recipe1",

    "example_recipe2"

  ]

}



To actually run the chef recipes, cd into the cookbooks project folder and run this command:


$ bake server_name



After running chef you should check the /var/log/baker.chef.log on the server itself for possible errors.