Bootstrap chef on a bare Debian/Ubuntu Server

chef-bootstrap.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Bootstrap chef-solo on a server

# Install Ruby
sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev libopenssl-ruby rdoc ri irb build-essential wget ssl-cert curl

# Install RubyGems instead of using the system version
cd /tmp
curl -O http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.8.10.tgz
tar zxf rubygems-1.8.10.tgz
cd rubygems-1.8.10
sudo ruby setup.rb --no-format-executable

# Install Chef
sudo gem install chef --no-ri --no-rdoc

sudo mkdir -p /etc/chef

sudo bash -c "cat > /etc/chef/solo.rb" <<'EOF'
file_cache_path "/var/cache/chef-solo"
cookbook_path "/var/cache/chef-solo/cookbooks"
EOF

sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/chef
sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/chef/cookbooks