Provides a set of recipes to setup a base app server:

• create users and groups
• setup base directory to store apps
• install common sysadmin tools

To install with Berkshelf, add this into Berksfile:

cookbook 'appbox'

To setup a base app server,

Add appbox::default recipe into run list, or include the recipe in your code:

include_recipe "appbox::default"

And override attributes to customize the cookbook.

See also teohm/kitchen-sample for appbox usage example with chef-solo.

You should set these attributes:

• node["appbox"]["admin_keys"] (default: []) - a list of authorized SSH public keys for admin user.
• node["appbox"]["deploy_keys"] (defaults: []) - a list of authorized SSH public keys for deploy user.

You may customize these attributes:

• node["appbox"]["admin_user"] (default: "devops") - admin account, to perform sysadmin tasks (login with SSH key, passwordless sudo, member of apps group).
• node["appbox"]["deploy_user"] (default: "deploy") - deploy account, to deploy apps (login with SSH key, passwordless sudo, member of apps group).
• node["appbox"]["apps_user"] (default: "apps") - apps account, to run apps (no login, not sudoer, member of apps group).
• node["appbox"]["apps_dir"] (default: "/home/apps") - base directory to store apps, writable (with +SGID) by apps group members.

• appbox::default - run all recipes.
• appbox::package_update - update software packages (with apt-get update).
• appbox::users - create users and groups.
• appbox::apps_dir - setup base directory to store apps.
• appbox::tools - install the following tools:
  • curl
  • htop
  • git
  • tmux

• ubuntu - tested on Ubuntu 12.10
• debian - should work

Pull requests, issue and test reports are welcomed to better support your platform.

• Depends on these cookbooks:
  • apt
  • sudo
  • user
  • curl
  • htop
  • git
  • tmux

• Author:: Huiming Teo [email protected]

Copyright 2013, Huiming Teo

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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