managed-chef-server

Deploys and configures the Chef server in a relatively stateless model.

Recipes

default

Install or restore the Chef Server in a new deployment, wrapping the Chef-Server cookbook. It looks for the existence of a knife-ec-backup tarball to restore from, configured with the node['mcs']['restore']['file'] attribute. It then creates a managed Chef organization and an org-managing admin user through the appropriate [attributes](attributes/default.rb#23).

backup

Runs knife ec backup via cron. The default is 2:30am daily, but you may change the cron schedule via the following attributes.

node['mcs']['backup']['cron']['minute'] = '30'
node['mcs']['backup']['cron']['hour'] = '2'
node['mcs']['backup']['cron']['day'] = '*'

cron

Installs the Chef server with the Chef client configured to run via cron. This may be set to use --local-mode, for when the Chef client has no other Chef server to contact. See the example [policyfiles/cron.rb](policyfile/cron.rb) and [kitchen.yml](kitchen.yml) for reference.

data_bag_loader

The node['mcs']['data_bags']['dir'] is compared against the existing data bags and creates and/or updates them as necessary. If the node['mcs']['data_bags']['prune'] attribute is true then the data bags and their items are deleted as necessary.

legacy_loader

Takes the node['mcs']['cookbooks']['dir'], node['mcs']['environments']['dir'] and node['mcs']['roles']['dir'] directories and loads whatever content is found into the local Chef server. If you want to use the same directory for the roles and environments the recipe can distinguish between JSON files. The cookbooks are expected to be tarballs in a directory, they will all be attempted to load via their Berksfile or with knife. For legacy cookbooks with multiple dependencies it may take multiple runs to load everything.

policyfile_loader

Takes the node['mcs']['policyfile']['dir'] and parses any .lock.json files to determine which policyfile archives to load into the local Chef server. Policies will be assigned to the group designated by the node['mcs']['policyfile']['group'] attribute for the Chef server (_default is the default). If the policy itself sets the node['mcs']['policyfile']['group'] attribute, the policy will be assigned to that group.

Testing

There is a [kitchen.yml](kitchen.yml) that may be used for testing with Vagrant. The [kitchen.vagrant.yml](kitchen.vagrant.yml) may be symlinked as kitchen.local.yml and used with local caches to speed up testing. If you want to use Docker, [kitchen.dokken.yml](kitchen.dokken.yml) may be used but it does not persist changes between runs and is thus not significantly faster (it's slower than Vagrant with caching). The following Suites map to example [policyfiles](policyfiles) that may be repurposed as necessary:

default

Tests simple installation and creation of the managed Chef user and organization.

restore

Restores the Chef server from a backup with policyfiles. kitchen verify restore ensures the policyfiles were restored properly.

cron

Checks the chef-client is in the crontab

backup

Checks the backup script is in the crontab and backup directories are available.

data_bags

Adds loading data bags from the included [test](test) directory. It restores from a previous data bag backup to ensure pruning and updating work.

policyfile

Adds loading policyfiles from the included [test](test) directory.

legacy

Adds loading cookbooks, environments and roles from the included [test](test) directory.

everything

Installs the Chef server, restores from a backup, attempts to load policyfiles (which are included in the restored backup) and adds backup via cron.

Attributes

The [default.rb](attributes/default.rb) attributes file documents available settings and tunings.

License and Authors

• Author: Matt Ray matt@chef.io
• Copyright 2018-2019, Chef Software, Inc

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