This is a quick start guide to use Master-Chef with ec2 instances (only on eu-west-1).

• Debian 6 squeeze
• Debian 7 wheezy
• Ubuntu 10 lucid
• Ubuntu 12 precise

You can click on link above to create instance, using your private key pair.

Clone master-chef :

git clone git://github.com/kitchenware/master-chef.git

Bootstrap master-chef :

For debian

cat bootstrap.sh | ssh admin@INSTANCE_IP bash

For ubuntu

cat bootstrap.sh | ssh ubuntu@INSTANCE_IP bash

This script create a chef account, deploy your ssh key in this account, and bootstrap master-chef.

SSH the instance

ssh chef@ip_of_created_instance

Run master-chef

/etc/chef/update.sh

How to configure it ? All the master-chef is in the file /etc/chef/local.json. Re-run /etc/chef/update.sh after each local.json modification.

You can find lot of examples here. The description of what these config do is here.

A local.json file to install Jenkins.

{
  "repos": {
    "git": [
      "git://github.com/kitchenware/master-chef.git"
    ]
  },
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[base::system]",
    "recipe[master_chef::chef_solo_scripts]",
    "recipe[jenkins]"
  ],
  "node_config": {
  }
}

Easy, is'nt it ?

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