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Nice jruby installation cookbook (Opscode)

There are a lot of good example Opscode cookbooks out there. Unfortunately they can be hard to find. People are not submitting them to the Opscode Cookbook repository. Its still hard to untangle your own cookbooks into something that can be put in a sharable format I guess.

Right now, the most productive way to find cookbooks [...]

Using the Official Opscode 0.8.x Gems to build EC2 AMI Chef Client and Server

Updates

Mar 3, 2010 Added call to script ec2-set-defaults that is normally called on ec2 init that sets the locale and apt sources for EC availability Zone

Introduction

Opscode has officially released 0.8.x of Chef. It is now even more fabulous. I’ve been using the pre-release version for the last couple of months and it is rock steady and [...]

Reseting the Opscode Chef Server Validation key/pem

In upgrading from my own custom hacked pre-0.8.x Chef server/clients to the official new and shiny 0.8.2 release, I wanted to make everything vanilla. One issue was somewhere along the line I set the validation_client_name to “validator”. The vanilla setting is “chef-validator”.

To do this I had to get rid of the “validator” and “chef-validator” authentication client [...]

Creating an Amazon EC2 AMI for Opscode Chef 0.8

Changes Since Original

1/13/10: Fix various minor inaccuracies and improved description on how to set up the chef-server. Also removed nanite as a requirement (its no longer used)
1/17/10: Add the requirement to build and install mixlib-authentication for the chef-client
1/21/10: Added a mkdir for /var/log/chef
1/22/10: Added step to insure that /tmp permissions are set

Introduction

Here’s my experience setting up [...]