chef

• www.opscode.com/chef

DESCRIPTION:

Chef is a systems management framework masquerading as a configuration management tool.

I’m in ur netwerk, cookin up yer servers. :)

REQUIREMENTS:

chef:

• ruby-openid
• json
• erubis
• extlib
• stomp
• ohai

chef-server, same requires as chef above, plus:

• stompserver
• ferret
• merb-core
• merb-haml
• mongrel
• haml
• ruby-openid
• syntax

External Servers:

• stompserver (for easy stomp mq testing)
• CouchDB

INSTALL:

Install all of the above. To fire up a develpment environment, do the following:

  * Start CouchDB with 'couchdb'
  * Start stompserver with 'stompserver'
  * Start chef-indexer with:
    chef-indexer -l debug
  * Start chef-server:
    chef-server -N -c 2
  * Test run chef to begin node registration:
    sudo ./bin/chef-client
  * Validate the node registration:
    Visit https://localhost:4000
      Login, enter an openid URL (see https://openid.net/get/)
      Registrations, click Validate
  * Test run chef with:
    chef-client

LICENSE:

Chef - A configuration management system

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.