Cookbooks

A set of Chef cookbooks aimed at Python web applications. Make sure you also check out fabric-provision to launch chef right out of your fabfiles.

Some of these cookbooks depend on the originals provided by Opscode in their repository

This repository makes use of submodules, so make sure that you init them too:

$ git clone https://github.com/caffeinehit/cookbooks.git
$ cd cookbooks
$ git submodule init

nginx

The nginx recipe downloads, compiles and installs nginx.

• Default attributes: here

• Usage:

    include_recipe "nginx"
  

nodejs

The nodejs recipe downloads, compiles and installs node.

• Default attributes: here

• Usage:

    include_recipe "nodejs"
  

coffeescript

The coffeescript recipe downloads and installs coffee.

• Default attributes: here

• Usage:

    include_recipe "coffeescript"
  

sass

The sass recipe downloads and install sass.

• Usage:

    include_recipe "sass"
  

solr

Installs jetty/solr to power your search. Override the schema.xml to suit the index to your needs.

upstart

Creates an upstart script you can use to control services you're deploying.

• Usage:

    upstart_script "gunicorn" do
        user "application"
        command "python /home/application/manage.py run_gunicorn"
    end
  

  Use start gunicorn and stop gunicorn on your server or as a service inside Chef to start / stop gunicorn.

  The process will automatically create a /var/log/<username>/<process-name>.log file owned by the specified user - a bit like foreman does.

dotfiles

Useful dotfiles to have around. For now it's only a .pythonrc file so your Python sessions remember what you've been doing.

• Usage:

    cookbook_file "/etc/profile.d/pythonrc.sh" do
        source "profile.d/pythonrc.sh"
        cookbook "dotfiles"
        owner "root"
    end
    cookbook_file "/home/user/.pythonrc.py" do 
        source "home/.pythonrc.py"
        cookbook "dotfiles"
        owner "user"
    end
  

authorized

Deploy your public SSH keys for passwordless authentication on the server.

• Usage:

    keys = ["ssh-rsa ...", "ssh-rsa ..."]
    authorized_keys "your-user" do
        keys keys
        homeroot "/home"
    end
    authorized_keys "root" do
        keys keys
        homeroot "/"
    end