This Chef cookbook installs ejabberd from operating system packages and configures its basic settings. It is intended that this cookbook remain small and perform only installation tasks, with downstream cookbooks swapping out the config template to configure more specifically.
Tested on Ubuntu 10.04 / 12.04, Debian 7.1 and CentOS 6.4.
Add recipe[ejabberd] to your node's run list
node['ejabberd']['jabber_domain']- the domain on which to serve XMPP connections (defaultnode['fqdn'])
ejabberd- Fetches and installs ejabberd