By Robert J Berger, on March 8th, 2010
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 [...]
By Robert J Berger, on March 2nd, 2010
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 [...]
By Robert J Berger, on January 12th, 2010
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 [...]
By Robert J Berger, on December 22nd, 2009
Update:
I am having problems using the chef dev tools/client from the HEAD of the chef git repository with the Opscode Alpha Server service. I’m not sure if its me or if the latest versions of the chef client from HEAD is compatible with the Alpha Server Service. So the following is still useful for understanding [...]