Chef Solo on Mac OS X - examples

bootstrap.sh

#!/bin/sh
USERNAME=shostakovich

mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp

# Install GCC + Git
curl https://github.com/downloads/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer/GCC-10.7-v2.pkg > GCC-10.7-v2.pkg
sudo installer -pkg GCC-10.7-v2.pkg -target /

# Install chef
sudo gem install chef

# Prepare Directory for Homebrew
sudo mkdir /usr/local
sudo chown -R $USERNAME /usr/local

configuration_examples.rb

template "#{node['homedir']}/.vimrc" do
  source "vimrc.erb"
  owner node['user']
end

execute "set dock to be on left" do
  command "defaults write com.apple.dock orientation -string left"
  user node['user']
end

execute "relaunch dock" do
  command "killall Dock"
end

node.json

{
  "run_list": [
  	"recipe[main]", 
  	"recipe[git]", 
  	"recipe[rvm]",
  	"recipe[apps]"
  ],
  
  "packages" : [
 	"wget", 
 	"tmux", 
 	"watch", 
 	"mobile-shell", 
 	"imagemagick", 
 	"solr", 
 	"mysql", 
 	"aspell",
 	"htmldoc",
 	"ghostscript",
 	"redis",
 	"pdftohtml"
  ],

  "homedir" : "/Users/shostakovich",
  "user" : "shostakovich"
}

package_examples.rb

dmg_package "Google Chrome" do
  dmg_name "googlechrome"
  source "https://dl-ssl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRM/googlechrome.dmg"
  action :install
end

zip_app_package "Mou" do
  source "http://mouapp.com/download/Mou.zip"
end

dmg_package "Virtualbox" do
  source "http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.1.18/VirtualBox-4.1.18-78361-OSX.dmg"
  type "mpkg"
end

solo.rb

root_path = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..'))
 
cookbook_path   File.join(root_path, 'cookbooks')
json_attribs   File.join(root_path, 'node.json') 

# Move all the state stuff from /var/chef. I wish there was a single config
# variable for this!
state_root_path = File.expand_path('~/.chef/state')
file_cache_path  "#{state_root_path}/cache"
checksum_path    "#{state_root_path}/checksums"
sandbox_path     "#{state_root_path}/sandbox"
file_backup_path "#{state_root_path}/backup"
cache_options[:path] = file_cache_path