Basic recipe to deploy Ruby+Elasticsearch applications with Chef

chef-base-ruby-elasticsearch-server.rb

# Installation
# ------------
#
# $ ssh -i ~/.ssh/yourkey.pem user@ec2-12-34-56-78.compute-1.amazonaws.com
#
# $ sudo apt-get install curl -y
# $ curl -# -L http://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash -s --
#
# $ time curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/karmi/10019159/raw/chef-base-ruby-elasticsearch-server.rb | sudo chef-apply -s

STDOUT.sync = true
STDERR.sync = true

# ----- Packages and Tools --

bash "apt update" do
  code "apt-get update"
end

%w| build-essential
    make
    bison
    zlib1g-dev
    libopenssl-ruby1.9.1
    libcurl4-openssl-dev
    libssl-dev
    libyaml-dev
    libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
    libreadline-dev
    libncurses5-dev
    file
    sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
    ruby1.9.3
    curl
    vim
    git
    htop |.each { |name| package name }

# ----- Elasticsearch -------

package "openjdk-7-jre-headless"

remote_file "/tmp/elasticsearch-1.1.0.deb" do
  source   "https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.1.0.deb"
  checksum "2cecb08a388948c3c6300ca56e0aad11796c3109"
  action   :create_if_missing
end

dpkg_package "elasticsearch-1.1.0.deb" do
  package_name "elasticsearch"
  source "/tmp/elasticsearch-1.1.0.deb"
end

bash "set ES_HEAP_SIZE" do
  code   "echo 'ES_HEAP_SIZE=256m' >> /etc/default/elasticsearch"
  not_if "grep '^ES_HEAP_SIZE=256m' /etc/default/elasticsearch"
end

bash "configure Elasticsearch" do
  code   "echo 'cluster.name: ruby-elasticsearch' >> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml"
  not_if "grep '^cluster.name: ruby-elasticsearch' /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml"
end

service "elasticsearch" do
  action [ :enable, :start ]
end

# ----- Redis ---------------

package "redis-server"

# ----- The Application -----

bash "install Bundler" do
  code   "gem install bundler"
  not_if "gem list | grep bundler"
end

# ----- Monit -----

package 'monit'

bash "enable Monit httpd" do
  code <<-CONTENT.gsub(/^\s*/, '')
    echo '
      set daemon 60

      set httpd port 2812 and
      use address localhost
      allow localhost
     ' >> /etc/monit/monitrc
  CONTENT
  not_if do
    File.read('/etc/monit/monitrc') =~ /^set httpd port 2812/
  end
end

file "/etc/monit/conf.d/application.conf" do
  content <<-MONITRC
  MONITRC
end

bash "reload monit" do
  code "service monit reload"
end