This repo contains pre-configured and generalized set of Chef recipes that can help you to setup a production environment VPS for any Ruby on Rails application.

Use the following code below to clone the repo on your local machine and install dependencies.

git clone [email protected]:nazarhussain/chef_repo.git
cd che_repo 
rmv use 2.4
bundle install
bundle exec berks install 

To setup any server you need to run following command.

bundle exec knife solo prepare root@<ip>

This step will create a file nodes/<ip>.json file. This is the file where you want to specify how you want to configure your VPS. Once you had done specifying every detail of the server in that JSON file. Then run the following command. Keep that JSON file saved and backup, as it will contain the passwords you specify for different components.

Never commit that JSON file to any version control.

Now run the following command to setup the complete recipe on the server.

bundle exec knife solo cook root@ip

Following components will be setup on your VPS with following Chef recipes.

* Can be specified in JSON file

You can run your VPS configuration file against a local docker to test it.

docker pull ubuntu      # Pull Ubuntu container 
docker run --name chef-repo ubuntu:bionic

1. Install Vagrant
2. Run vagrant up
3. Run vagrant ssh-config
4. Put vagrant config to ~/.ssh/config
5. Run knife solo prepare vagrant
6. Run knife solo cook vagrant

Here is the list of each component you can specify in the JSON config file. For each component there is a role attached. So you have to add that role to run_list to execute. Your JSON configuration looks like something.

{
  "run_list":[],
  "automatic": {
    "ipaddress": "ip"
  }
}

What ever component you choose from below, you have to add it to run_list and also specify its configuration if required. e.g. If you want to add ruby component. Your JSON file should look like something.

{
  "run_list":["role[ruby]"],
  
  "ruby": {
    "version": "2.4.5"  // Version of Ruby to user on the server
  },
  
  "automatic": {
    "ipaddress": "ip"
  }
}

For the list of components, please look for the this sample file

** Invalid Checksum Error with Nosdejs **

If faced invalid checksum error, use follwoing config

"nodejs": {
    "version": "6.12.0",
    "binary": {
      "checksum": "f011ba"
    }
  },

and visit https://nodejs.org/dist/v<version_number>/SHASUMS256.txt.asc to cehck valid cehcksum and put in your config files.