Chef Solo

Chef-solo.md

Chef Solo is very useful for single server configuration management.

Chef Solo config file '/etc/chef/solo.rb' is optional and it defaults to repo='/var/chef/'.

Just copy cookbooks directly to /var/chef/cookbooks. Run them using chef-solo command.

For e.g

chef-solo -o 'recipe[awsutil::cloudwatchlog]'

or from a json file

chef-solo -j runlist.json

To install chef use the following command:

curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash 

# to install an older version e.g 11

curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash -s -- -v 11

runlist.json

{
    "run_list": [ "recipe[awsutil::cloudwatchlog]" ]
}

solo.rb

# Sample 
repo = '/etc/chef/src'

cookbook_path repo + '/cookbooks'
data_bag_path repo + '/data_bags'
role_path repo + '/roles'

log_level :info
log_location STDOUT