One-ish step RHEL6/CentOS6 Chef Server bootstrap.

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#!/bin/sh
#
# One-ish step RHEL6/CentOS6 Chef Server bootstrap. Just a bunch
# of steps from the wiki encapsulated.
#
# http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo
#
# * Installs chef-server AND chef-webui. If you don't want the web UI,
#   delete the '"webui_enabled": true' line in the code below.
# * Does not configure initial knife 
#
# REQUIREMENTS:
# 1. You must have EPEL configured already.
# 2. For RHEL, that means the host also needs to be set up for the RH
#    'Optional' subscription channel.
# 3. If you are behind an HTTP proxy, uncomment and set it below if you
#    do not already have it exported in your shell's environment.

# http_proxy=http://our.org:80

echo "Installing chef-client and chef-solo..."
sudo true && curl -L http://opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash
chef-client -v > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "Installation of chef-client and chef-solo failed."
    exit 1
fi

sudo mkdir /etc/chef
cat <<EOF>/etc/chef/solo.rb
file_cache_path "/tmp/chef-solo"
cookbook_path "/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks"
EOF
echo "Configured basic /etc/chef/solo.rb"
cat <<EOF>$HOME/chef.json
{
  "chef_server": {
    "server_url": "http://localhost:4000",
    "webui_enabled": true
  },
  "run_list": [ "recipe[chef-server::rubygems-install]" ]
}
EOF
echo "Stored temporary JSON in $HOME/chef.json"
echo "Running chef-solo...this could take many minutes..."
sudo chef-solo \
-c /etc/chef/chef-solo.rb \
-j ~/chef.json \
-r http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

# For some reason, for me, these did not start automatically
# when the chef-solo run was complete above. So start them.
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    service chef-server start
    service chef-webui start
fi