Chef for CentOS

This is a sample chef repository and installation steps document for CentOS6.

At this repository you don't use chef-server. You only use chef-solo and git command in the custom bash script chef-host.

Usage

Following will build your CentOS sever environment in a few steps.

1. Modify your host name.

    # vi /etc/sysconfig/network
   

   You need to edit like following.

    NETWORKING=yes
    HOSTNAME=web
   

2. Reboot system to use modified hostname.

    # reboot
   

3. Install chef using Omnibus. You only run below command.

    # curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash
   

   note) Omunibus is a installer of chef packaging. If you want to get more infomations, see http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/06/29/omnibus-chef-packaging/.

4. Install git

    # yum install -y git
   

5. Clone this git repository

    # git clone https://github.com/kohkimakimoto/chef-for-centos.git /var/chef
   

6. Run chef-solo using following command

    # sh /var/chef/bin/chef-host
   

   You will get environments of Apache(httpd), MySQL, PHP and 3rd party yum repositories(remi and epel).

See also

The following page is my blog post about it written in Japanese.

http://kohkimakimoto.hatenablog.com/entry/2013/02/15/121741