Configuring EC2 RHEL4 with Chef

gistfile1.sh

which ruby
ruby -version
port list | grep ruby
sudo gem update --system
gem -v

mkdir -p ~/chef-repo/.chef/
mv ~/Downloads/<chef-hosted-account-username>.pem ~/chef-repo/.chef/
mv ~/Downloads/knife.rb ~/chef-repo/.chef/
mv ~/Downloads/<chef-hosted-organization-name>-validator.pem ~/chef-repo/.chef/
sudo gem install chef --no-ri --no-rdoc
git clone git://github.com/opscode/chef-repo.git ~/chef-repo

chef-client -v
knife client list

knife cookbook site install getting-started
knife cookbook upload getting-started
knife cookbook list

knife configure client ./client-config
ls -l client-config/

gem search -r knife
sudo gem install knife-ec2

find ./ -name knife.rb
vi ./.chef/knife.rb
 13 ######
 14 ##EC2#
 15 ######
 16 #
 17 ## Platform access info
 18 knife[:aws_access_key_id]     = "xxx"
 19 knife[:aws_secret_access_key] = "xxx"
 20 #
 21 ## Smallest possible free machine possible
 22 knife[:flavor]                = "t1.micro"
 23 #
 24 ## RHEL 4 Basic 64-bit Amazon Linux AMI 2011.09 (GOOD!)
 25 knife[:image]                 = "ami-1b814f72"
 26 #
 27 ## RHEL 6.1 x86_64 (NO SSH!)
 28 #knife[:image]                 = "ami-31d41658"
 29 #
 30 ## RHEL-5.6-Starter-EBS-x86_64-11-Hourly2 (NO SSH!)
 31 #knife[:image]                 = "ami-8f4083e6"
 32 #
 33 ## Keypair id in cloud to assign to the provisioned instance
 34 knife[:aws_ssh_key_id]        = "xxx"
 35 #
 36 ## Keypair local location to access the provisioned instance (not picked up from here!)
 37 #knife[:identity_file]         = "/Users/xxx/.ec2/ec2.pem"
 38 #config[:ssh_user]             = "ec2-user"

cd ~/chef-repo/
knife cookbook upload yum erlang couchdb

cd ~/chef-repo/
knife bootstrap ec2-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com -x ec2-user -i /Users/xxx/.ec2/ec2.pem
ls ~/.ec2/ec2.pem
chmod 400 /Users/xxx/.ec2/ec2.pem
ls -alrt ~/.ec2/ec2.pem
telnet ec2-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com 22
vi ./.chef/knife.rb 

cd ~/chef-repo/
gem contents chef | grep linux
cat /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/archlinux-gems.erb
knife bootstrap ec2-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com -x ec2-user -i /Users/xxx/.ec2/ec2.pem --sudo --template-file /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/archlinux-gems.erb
ssh -i /Users/xxx/.ec2/ec2.pem [email protected]

cd ~/chef-repo/
gem contents chef | grep cent
cat /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/centos5-gems.erb
mkdir ~/chef-repo/.chef/bootstrap/
cp /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.4/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/centos5-gems.erb ~/chef-repo/.chef/bootstrap/centos5-gems-modified.erb
vi ~/chef-repo/.chef/bootstrap/centos5-gems-modified.erb
  1 bash -c '
  2 <%= "export http_proxy=\"#{knife_config[:bootstrap_proxy]}\"" if knife_config[:bootstrap_proxy] -%>
  3 
  4 if [ ! -f /usr/bin/chef-client ]; then
  5   yum install -y ruby ruby-devel gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf make
  6   yum install -y rubygems
  7 fi
  8 
  9 gem update --system
 10 gem update
 11 gem install ohai --no-rdoc --no-ri --verbose
 12 gem install chef --no-rdoc --no-ri --verbose <%= bootstrap_version_string %>
 13 
 14 mkdir -p /etc/chef
 15 
 16 (
 17 cat <<'EOP'
 18 <%= validation_key %>
 19 EOP
 20 ) > /tmp/validation.pem
 21 awk NF /tmp/validation.pem > /etc/chef/validation.pem
 22 rm /tmp/validation.pem
 23 
 24 (
 25 cat <<'EOP'
 26 <%= config_content %>
 27 EOP
 28 ) > /etc/chef/client.rb
 29 
 30 (
 31 cat <<'EOP'
 32 <%= { "run_list" => @run_list }.to_json %>
 33 EOP
 34 ) > /etc/chef/first-boot.json
 35 
 36 <%= start_chef %>'

cd ~/chef-repo/
knife ec2 server create --help
knife ec2 server create -x ec2-user -i /Users/xxx/.ec2/ec2.pem --template-file ~/chef-repo/.chef/bootstrap/centos5-gems-modified.erb --verbose
knife ec2 server list
knife client list

$ knife node run_list add i-17a4bf74 "recipe[getting-started]"
run_list:  recipe[getting-started]

$ sudo find / -name cookbooks
/var/chef/cache/cookbooks
$ sudo find / -name chef-getting-started.txt
/root/chef-getting-started.txt
$ sudo cat /root/chef-getting-started.txt
Welcome to Chef!
This is Chef version 0.10.4.
Running on amazon.
Version 2011.09.

$ knife node run_list remove i-17a4bf74 "recipe[getting-started]"
run_list: