JoatU Chef Recipes

This Chef repository is forked from the Intercity Chef Repository, which aims to be the easiest way to set up and configure a Rails server.

It is is heavily inspired by blog posts and chef recipes from 37signals and the Opscode Community Cookbooks.

Features

Takes care of automatic installation and configuration of the following software on a single server or multiple servers:

• nginx webserver
• Unicorn for running Ruby on Rails
• Multiple apps on one server
• Database creation and password generation
• Easy SSL configuration
• Deployment with Capistrano
• Configure ENV variables

Ubuntu versions

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Databases

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL

Getting started

The following paragraphs will guide you to begin managing the JoatU servers through this repository.

1. Set up this repository

Clone the repository onto your own workstation, and change to the joatu-chef-repo folder. For example, to clone into your ~/Code directory:

$ cd ~/Code
$ git clone git@github.com:joatuapp/joatu-chef-repo.git
$ cd joatu-chef-repo

Run bundle:

$ bundle install

2. Configure Chef

In order to access the chef server, you will first need an account at Opscode and will have needed to be invited to the JoatU organization. Email Alex if you need access.

3. Clone the JoatU codebase into place.

If you've already cloned the JoatU codebase onto your machine, make sure that all your work there is committed & pushed, and then delete the repository. Then, from within your joatu-chef-repo folder, run the following commands:

$ cd apps
$ git clone git@github.com:joatuapp/joatu-app.git

4. Deploy the application

Deploys are handled via capistrano. We currently have only one environment configured (alpha), so that is the only environment that can be deployed.

First, to verify that everything is set up correctly run:

bundle exec cap alpha deploy:check

Finally to deploy, run:

bundle exec cap alpha deploy

This will deploy your app and run your database migrations.

Congratulations! You've deployed JoatU. Visit alpha.joatu.com to see your changes!

When you run into problems:

If something doesn't work or you need more instructions:

Please! email alex@undergroundwebdevelopment.com.

Resources and original authors

• Most of the cookbooks that are used in this repository are installed from the Opscode Community Cookbooks.
• The rails and bluepill configuration is based off the cookbooks by jsierles at https://github.com/jsierles/chef_cookbooks