ConnectCon Conf Chef repository

Every Chef Organization needs a Chef Repository. This is the place where cookbooks, roles, config files and other artifacts for managing systems with Chef live. This repository was made to run a Chef organization to demo our aem/cq cookbook at the ConnectCon conference, cf.

AEM Chef Test-Drive

Later on I added a chef-metal based cookbook in this chef repo, this allows you to have an AEM infra fully configured in matter of minutes using a vagrant provisionner.

install vagrant
install ruby with rvm
install bundler
checkout this git chef-repo to your disk
edit the dev.json environment file in order to have the download_url and license_url pointing to reachable aem jar and license URLs within your network
change directory to the root of the local copy of this git repo
launch our ./local_setup.sh

Except for vagrant installation all the above can be boiled down to the following commmand lines:

curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
gem install bundler
git clone https://github.com/francoisledroff/connectcon-chef-repo.git
cd connectcon-chef-repo
./local_first_usecase.sh

A few minutes later you will have a centos vm running on a local IP (set up in our aem-metal default recipe) If this private range IP is in used pick another one, just change the recipe file.

The vm is created by default under .chef/vms . From there, you can ssh in, and then double check aem service is started and eventually stop the firewall to freely access this chef automated cq author instance from your browser at http://192.168.0.20:4502

$ cd .chef/vms  
$ vagrant ssh
Last login: Tue Jul 15 16:44:19 2014 from 10.0.2.2
Welcome to your Vagrant-built virtual machine.
[vagrant@author ~]$ sudo service service aem-author status 
[vagrant@author ~]$ sudo service iptables stop

What's next ?

If my agenda allows it, I hope I could demo here as well:

how this vagrant provisioner could be replaced by a docker provisioner or a EC2, Rackspace, DigitalOcean and Openstack provisioner
how to secure the automation with chef-vault
how to set up a few typical aem infrastructures (more complex than just this author instance I have for now) as presented in my slides

troubleshooting

failing vagrant #1

issue:

STDERR:/Users/ledroff/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/vagrant-berkshelf-1.3.7/lib/berkshelf/vagrant/env.rb:18:in `initialize': undefined method `scope' for #<Vagrant::UI::Colored:0x000001026c2908> (NoMethodError)

solution:

vagrant plugin uninstall vagrant-berkshelf

failing vagrant #2