Installing Chef Server on CentOS 5 / 6

Requires bootstrap method, starting with chef-solo / chef-client

First steps, system prep

vi /etc/sysconfig/network

vi /etc/selinux/config

chkconfig iptables off

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

(reboot)

vi /etc/hosts – add ip

yum update

rpm -Uvh http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel5

wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/aegisco.repo http://rpm.aegisco.com/aegisco/el5/aegisco.repo

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

or

rpm -Uvh http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk gecode-devel telnet ruby rubygems ruby-devel ruby-ri ruby-rdoc ruby-shadow gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf make curl dmidecode

curl -O http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.8.10.tgz

tar -zxvf rubygems-1.8.10.tgz

ruby setup.rb --no-format-executable

Second steps, install chef client and chef solo

gem install chef –no-ri –no-rdoc

Create chef-solo (bootstrap)

mkdir /etc/chef

vi /etc/chef/solo.rb

file_cache_path "/tmp/chef-solo"

cookbook_path "/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks"

vi /etc/chef/chef.json

{

  "chef_server": {

    "server_url": "http://localhost:4000",

    "webui_enabled": true

  },

  "run_list": [ "recipe[chef-server::rubygems-install]" ]

}

If you find the error message

  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl/cipher.rb:22: Cipher is not a module (TypeError)

  then download the ruby source files (for your version!) from e.g., 

  ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p352.tar.bz2, 

  untar it and change dir to ruby-XXXXX/ext/openssl. There, run 

  ruby extconf.rb, 

  make,

  and make install. 

Afterwards, the bootstrap should overcome this error.

Running into library dependency errors on running chef-solo for CentOS 5 ...

yum install openssl-devel

yum install glibc glibc-devel glibc-headers

#yum install gcc44
#yum install gcc44-c++

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

(configure, make, make install - in order)

ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/gmp-4.3.2.tar.bz2

ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/mpfr-2.4.2.tar.bz2

ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/mpc-0.8.1.tar.gz

ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-4.7.2/gcc-4.7.2.tar.gz

chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j /etc/chef/chef.json -r http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

Known CentOS error ??


Recipe: gecode::source
  * execute[ldconfig] action run
    - execute ldconfig

[2013-03-09T14:01:15-08:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2013-03-09T14:01:15-08:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
Chef Client failed. 6 resources updated
[2013-03-09T14:01:15-08:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/chef-solo/chef-stacktrace.out
[2013-03-09T14:01:15-08:00] FATAL: NoMethodError: gem_package[chef-server-api] (chef-server::rubygems-install line 83) had an error: NoMethodError: undefined method `full_name' for nil:NilClass

Try -

gem install chef-server

Throws -


(::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::)
Fetching: merb-assets-1.1.3.gem (100%)
Fetching: merb-helpers-1.1.3.gem (100%)
Fetching: merb-param-protection-1.1.3.gem (100%)
Fetching: dep_selector-0.0.8.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing chef-server:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        /usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for main() in -lgecodesearch... no
=========================================================================================
Gecode >3.5 must be installed (http://www.gecode.org/).

OSX:
  brew install gecode

For convenience, we have built Gecode for Debian/Ubuntu (<release> is lucid or maverick):
  Add the following two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opscode.list:
    deb http://apt.opscode.com <release> main
    deb-src http://apt.opscode.com <release> main
  Then run:
    curl http://apt.opscode.com/packages@opscode.com.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install libgecode-dev

Other distributions can build from source.

Try -

yum install gecode

yum install gecode-devel

Throws -

Package gecode-3.5.0-1.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version

Package gecode-devel-3.5.0-1.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version

Try installing from source -

http://www.gecode.org/download/gecode-3.7.3.tar.gz

(configure, make, make install)


Try -

gem install chef-server

Throws -

needs gecode > 3.5

Try -

chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j /etc/chef/chef.json -r http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz


same

Try -

yum erase gecode gecode-devel

cd gecode-3.7.3
make install

gem install chef-server

Verify components installed and running

Name	Listen Port	Example Program Name in ps (Erlang programs truncated)
Chef Server	4000	merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000)
Chef Server WebUI	4040	merb : chef-server-webui : worker (port 4040)
CouchDB	5984	beam.smp -Bd -K true – -root /usr/local/lib/erlang -progname erl – -noshell -noinput -couch_ini /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini -s couch
RabbitMQ	5672	{{beam.smp -W w -K true -A30 – -root /usr/local/lib/erlang -progname erl – -noshell -noinput -s rabbit -sname rabbit -rabbit tcp_listeners [{"0.0.0.0", 5672}]}}
Chef Solr	8983	/usr/bin/java -Xmx250M -Xms250M -Dsolr.data.dir=/opscode/chef/features/data/solr/data -Dsolr.solr.home=/opscode/chef/features/data/solr/home -jar /opscode/chef/features/data/solr/jetty/start.jar
Chef Expander	none	ruby ./chef-solr/bin/chef-expander -c /etc/chef/solr.rb -l debug