Objective / Background

Provision a remote server using knife solo; cookbooks managed by berkshelf

Pre-Requisites

• You already understand what's happening here - https://github.com/sajnikanth/berksdemo
• A Vagrant VM up and running using the Vagrantfile in this repo
• An EC2 instance (open ports 22 and 80) up and running. Update ~/.ssh/config so you can ssh into it like so ssh ec2.

Run

• git clone git@github.com:sajnikanth/knife-solo-demo.git && cd knife-solo-demo
• bundle install - install all pre-requisite gems - chef, knife-solo, berkshelf
• berks install --path cookbooks/ #cookbooks get downloaded to cookbooks folder
• knife solo prepare vagrant@192.168.12.34 - installs chef solo on Vagrant VM
• knife solo cook vagrant@192.168.12.34 copies cookbooks and runs the recipies on VM
• Open the browser on your host (osx) and hit 192.168.12.34; You should see a 404 from nginx (this means it is installed)
• Now we do the same for ec2, but use knife solo bootstrap which combines prepare and cook
• knife solo bootstrap ec2
• Open the browser on your host (osx) and hit ec2 machine's IP; You should see a 404 from nginx (this means it is installed)