chef-server-docker will run a standalone Chef Server in an Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 LTS container.

This is a fork of: c-buisson/chef-server

1. If needed modify variables.sh
2. Optionally download the version of a .deb package for Chef Server desired into this directory (otherwise latest stable will be downloaded into the container)
3. execute ./build
4. execute ./run

State is preserved via /var/opt volume mounted on the host. Use docker stop <container> to gracefully quiesce PostgreSQL and other services.

Chef is running over HTTPS/443 by default. You can however change that to another port by adding -e SSL_PORT=new_port to the docker run command below and update the expose port -p accordingly.

When Chef Server gets configured it creates an SSL certificate based on the container's FQDN (i.e "103d6875c1c5" which is the "CONTAINER ID"). This default behiavior has been changed to always produce an SSL certificate file named "chef-server.crt".
You can change the certificate name by adding -e CONTAINER_NAME=new_name to the docker run command. Remember to reflect that change in config.rb!

The container needs to be DNS resolvable!
Be sure 'chef-server' or $CONTAINER_NAME is pointing to the container's IP!
This needs to be done to match the SSL certificate name with the chef_server_url from knife's config.rb file.