mconf / chef-recipes

This repository is DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/mconf-cookbooks/mconf-live-solo

chef-recipes

This repository stores contains all chef cookbooks used by Mconf. It is a collection of the cookbooks developed for Mconf plus all of their dependencies. For the latest versions of the cookbooks and to install the cookbooks in your own setup, see https://github.com/mconf-cookbooks/.

To see the version of chef being used see .chef-version.

Working with librarian

Install it:

bundle install

To add a cookbook, first add it to Cheffile and then (note: it's always usefull to use --verbose with librarian):

bundle exec librarian-chef install [--verbose]

Update a cookbook:

bundle exec librarian-chef update mconf-lb [--verbose]

Vagrant

Install Vagrant.

Install plugins for Vagrant:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-lxc
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
vagrant plugin install vagrant-librarian-chef
vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

Download the dependencies:

bundle install
rbenv rehash

cd vagrant/
bundle exec librarian-chef install [--verbose]

Create the VM:

cd ../
vagrant up

Log into the VM

vagrant ssh
cd vagrant/
bundle install

Now you can run chef-solo as in:

sudo chef-solo -c /vagrant/config/solo.rb -j utils/mconf-web.json

Running chef-solo

Install the version of chef described in .chef-version and then run chef-solo as in the example below:

sudo chef-solo -c config/solo.rb -j utils/mconf-web.json

chef-recipes's Issues

nagiosgraph fails due wrong certificate in SVN repo

I had to do this change as it seems that the SVN server hosting the plugin has now a wrong certificate . It was OK a couple of weeks ago.

diff --git a/cookbooks/nagiosgraph/recipes/default.rb b/cookbooks/nagiosgraph/recipes/def
index 985846f..5158fb8 100644
--- a/cookbooks/nagiosgraph/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/nagiosgraph/recipes/default.rb
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ end
 subversion "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/nagiosgraph" do
     repository "https://svn.code.sf.net/p/nagiosgraph/code/trunk/nagiosgraph"
     revision "578"
+    svn_arguments '--trust-server-cert --non-interactive'
     action :sync
     notifies :run, "execute[nagiosgraph check prerequisites]", :immediately
 end

Please share cookbooks on Chef supermarket

Hello,

I see you have very good cookbooks not yet available on Chef's supermarket.

Please consider sharing you configuration knowledge there.

regards,
bráulio

Chef exits with Fatal Error

Chef Client failed. 8 resources updated
[2015-07-01T15:44:37+05:30] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)

How to slove this problem???
Am installing Mconf-Live Standalone in a server running ubuntu 14.04 64bit