• http://github.com/ClarityServices/capchef

capchef combines Capistrano with Chef to provide chef capabilities without requiring a chef server.

gem install capchef

capchef assumes you have a directory structure that looks something like the following:

chef-repo/
  cookbooks/
  roles/
  ...
Gemfile
Capfile
nodes.yml

Your Gemfile might look something like the following:

source :gemcutter
gem 'capistrano'
gem 'capchef'

Your Capfile might look something like the following:

require 'capchef'
require 'capchef/chef_recipes'
require 'capchef/utility_recipes'

# Uncomment the following if running scripts under sudo isn't allowed
#Capchef.use_sudo = false

role :node, *Capchef.all_nodes(ENV['NODE_FILTER'])

# Define the path to the chef-solo executable if it's not in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin
set :chef_solo_path, '/opt/ruby/bin'

Your nodes.yml might look something like the following:

<% (1..10).each do |i| %>
web<%= i %>:
  run_list:
    - role[web]
<% end %>

<% (1..5).each do |i| %>
app<%= i %>:
  run_list:
    - role[app]
<% end %>

munin:
  munin:
    nodes: <%= (Capchef.all_nodes - ['munin']).join(',') %>
  run_list:
    - recipe[munin::server]
    - recipe[nginx::server]

Then you can install to your hosts with the following command:

cap chef

Or just to your web servers with a command like (filters by regex matching the node names):

NODE_FILTER=web cap chef

Currently all recipes get rerun whenever you perform a 'cap chef'. I could probably get around this with an option to tar to maintain modification times when extracting the cookbook files.

Brad Pardee :: bradpardee@gmail.com

Copyright 2011 Brad Pardee

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