Chef Server Setup

chef.json

{
  "chef_server": {
    "server_url": "http://localhost:4000",
    "webui_enabled": true
  },
  "run_list": [ "recipe[chef-server::rubygems-install]" ]
}

server-bootstrap.sh

sudo chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

server-setup

mkdir -p ~/.chef
sudo cp /etc/chef/validation.pem /etc/chef/webui.pem ~/.chef
sudo chown -R $USER ~/.chef

solo.rb

#/etc/chef/solo.rb
file_cache_path "/tmp/chef-solo"
cookbook_path "/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks"