Quick start to setup a chef server on virtualbox

chef-server-virtualbox-bootstrap.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Install virtualbox:
# - http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
# - Download iso: http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.10/
# - Create a new virtualbox using the iso as the install media
# - Change network adapter to bridged
# - Use ifconfig to get ip address
#
# Once you have a clean install of ubuntu...

# ssh:
sudo apt-get install openssl-server
sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw allow 22

# bootstrap chef
# http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Bootstrap+Chef+RubyGems+Installation
sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev libopenssl-ruby rdoc ri irb build-essential wget ssl-cert vim

# rubygems:
cd /tmp
wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
tar zxf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.7
sudo ruby setup.rb --no-format-executable

# chef:
sudo gem install chef
sudo mkdir -p /etc/chef

cat > /etc/chef/solo.rb <<EOF
file_cache_path "/tmp/chef-solo"
cookbook_path "/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks"
EOF

cat > ~/chef.json <<EOF
{
  "chef": {
    "server_url": "http://localhost:4000",
    "webui_enabled": true
  },
  "run_list": [ "recipe[chef::bootstrap_server]" ]
}
EOF

sudo chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

# Open up server and web ui ports:
sudo ufw allow 4000
sudo ufw allow 4040

# Configure knife
# you may have permission problems on /etc/chef that you can chown to fix...

knife configure -i