Bootstrap file for installing ruby, opscode chef, librarian-chef and related stuff on a minimal installed fedora or ubuntu machine for using chef-solo locally.

ruby-chef-solo-bootstrap.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# -------------------------------------------------
# set ruby version

VER=2.3
RUBYVERSION=${VER}.1
CHEFDIR=/var/lib/chef
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
DISTRIBUTION=`lsb_release -si`

mkdir -p $CHEFDIR; cd $CHEFDIR

# -------------------------------------------------
# basic packages

case "$DISTRIBUTION" in
  Fedora) 
    dnf update
    dnf install openssl-devel zlib-devel libyaml-devel git readline-devel
  ;;
  Debian|Ubuntu)
    apt-get -y update
    apt-get -y install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline6-dev libyaml-dev git
  ;;
  *)
    echo "Distribution $DISTRIBUTION not yet supported"
    exit 1
esac

# -------------------------------------------------
# install ruby

if [ "$RUBYVERSION" != "system" ]; then
  $(\
    cd /tmp; \
    wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/${VER}/ruby-${RUBYVERSION}.tar.gz ;\
    tar -xvzf ruby-${RUBYVERSION}.tar.gz ;\
    cd ruby-${RUBYVERSION}/ ;\
    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared && make && make install ; \
  )

  hash -r

  # -- check ruby version

  echo " --- "
  ruby -v
  echo " --- "
  sleep 5
fi

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# .gemrc for root

cat > $HOME/.gemrc << EOF_GEMRC
---
# http_proxy: http://192.0.2.1:3128/
:update_sources: true
:sources:
- https://rubygems.org/
:benchmark: false
:bulk_threshold: 1000
:backtrace: false
:verbose: true
# gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
install: --no-ri --no-rdoc --env-shebang
update:  --no-rdoc --no-ri --env-shebang

EOF_GEMRC

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# installing chef, librarian-chef and bundler

gem install chef ruby-shadow bundler --no-ri --no-rdoc --env-shebang
gem install librarian-chef --no-ri --no-rdoc --env-shebang

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# .gitignore :
# with vagrant you should set this in your vagrant machine directory
# and stop the procedure here

cat > $CHEFDIR/.gitignore << EOF_GITIGNORE
/cookbooks
/tmp
*.swp
/bootstrap
/vagrant
EOF_GITIGNORE

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# create a solo.rb for chef-solo:
#  - cookbooks is only for librarian-chef cookbooks
#  - local cookbooks goes to site-cookbook

cat > $CHEFDIR/solo.rb << SOLO_EOF
http_proxy "#{ENV['http_proxy']}"
https_proxy "#{ENV['http_proxy']}"
cookbook_path [
                File.expand_path("../cookbooks", __FILE__),
                File.expand_path("../site-cookbooks", __FILE__),
              ]
json_attribs File.expand_path("../node.json", __FILE__)
SOLO_EOF

echo "Done. Please check $CHEFDIR/solo.rb, $CHEFDIR/.gitignore and $HOME/.gemrc"