QStack chef-provisioning test project

Prerequisites

aws-cli and credentials

This project assumes that you have two profiles configured and they work in the aws-cli tools:

• The default credential should be a valid AWS credential
• The qstack credential should be a valid QStack credential

Please refer to the aws-cli instructions on how to set that up:

• Installation: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html
• Configuration: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html

Bundler and ruby

You need to have Bundler set up and we recommend having rbenv installed as well.

Setting up

• Clone this repository and install all bundler gems:

git clone [email protected]:nextcode-health/qstack-chef-provisioning.git
cd qstack-chef-provisioning
bundle install

• Use Berkshelf to retrieve all dependant cookbooks

bundle exec berks vendor cookbooks

Now everything should be ready to perform the chef-provisioning tests.

Running the various tests

There are two chef-provisioning scripts available (one sets up an empty machine and the other sets up a machine with Apache). There are three configurations available: vagrant, aws and qstack.

Vagrant

To provision an empty machine:

bundle exec chef-client -z provision/vagrant-minimal.rb provision/empty-node.rb

To provision a web server machine:

bundle exec chef-client -z provision/vagrant-minimal.rb provision/web-node.rb

AWS

This assumes that your default profile for aws-cli contains your AWS credentials. Otherwise you need to modify the provision/aws-minimal.rb (an example is provided in the file).

To provision an empty machine:

bundle exec chef-client -z provision/aws-minimal.rb provision/empty-node.rb

To provision a web server machine:

bundle exec chef-client -z provision/aws-minimal.rb provision/web-node.rb

QStack

This assumes that your QStack credentials are specified in a profile called qstack in ~/.aws/credentials. Otherwise you need to modify the provision/qstack-minimal.rb. That file also contains the ec2_endpoint, flavor_id, image_id and possibly more config options which needs to be modified based on what QStack installation you are working against. These changes should be self explanatory.

NOTE This currently does not work because of some problem with authentication.

To provision an empty machine:

bundle exec chef-client -z provision/qstack-minimal.rb provision/empty-node.rb

To provision a web server machine:

bundle exec chef-client -z provision/qstack-minimal.rb provision/web-node.rb