A cookbook that performs a basic installation of the Phoenix Framework along with any missing dependencies.

This cookbook has no direct external dependencies. It will install and configure any missing packages and dependencies. A stable and decently fast Internet connection is required.

The following platforms and versions are tested and supported using test-kitchen

• CentOS 7.1

The following platform families are supported in the code.

• Red Hat (RHEL)
• Centos
• Fedora

Using this cookbook is relatively straightforward. It is recommended to create a project or organization specific wrapper cookbook and add the desired recipes to the run list of a node, or create a role. Depending on your environment, you may have multiple roles that use different recipes from this cookbook. Adjust any attributes as desired. For example, to create a basic role:

{
    "name": "phoenix",
    "description": "Role to install the Phoenix Framework and its dependencies.",
    "chef_type": "role",
    "json_class": "Chef::Role",
    "default_attributes": {
    },
    "override_attributes": {
    },
    "run_list": [
        "recipe[phoenix::install_erlang]",
        "recipe[phoenix::install_elixir]",
        "recipe[phoenix::install_phoenix]"
    ]
}

If you are using chef-client you can follow this example based on the role above:

Install Latest Chef

curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash

Create a chef-repo (placed in the /root/ directory in this example) with the following structure and files:

chef-repo/
|-- cookbooks
|   `-- phoenix
|       |-- attributes
|       |-- recipes
|       |-- spec
|       `-- test
|-- nodes
|   `-- node_phoenix.json
|   
|-- roles
|   `-- role_phoenix.json
`-- client.rb

% cat chef-repo/nodes/node_phoenix.json

{
  "name": "node_phoenix",
  "run_list": [
    "role[role_phoenix]"
  ]
}

% cat chef-repo/roles/role_phoenix.json

{
    "name": "phoenix",
    "description": "Role to install the Phoenix Framework and its dependencies.",
    "chef_type": "role",
    "json_class": "Chef::Role",
    "default_attributes": {
    },
    "override_attributes": {
    },
    "run_list": [
        "recipe[phoenix::install_erlang]",
        "recipe[phoenix::install_elixir]",
        "recipe[phoenix::install_phoenix]"
    ]
}

% cat chef-repo/client.rb

cookbook_path   "/root/chef-repo/cookbooks"
role_path '/root/chef-repo/roles'
data_bag_path  '/root/chef-repo/data_bags'
environment_path '/root/chef-repo/environments'
encrypted_data_bag_secret '/etc/chef'
local_mode 'true'
node_name 'node'
node_path '/root/chef-repo/nodes'
log_level :info

Now we can run our node/role using chef-client local mode (chef-zero):

chef-client -z -c client.rb -j nodes/node_phoenix.json

This cookbook has attributes for a basic installation of the Phoenix Framework and dependencies. It should all be relatively straight-forward to override if different versions are desired.

The recipes included; install_erlang and install_elixir are dependencies required unless it is known that the environment already has these requirements installed properly. The recipe install_phoenix uses Elixir to install Hex and finally Phoenix itself.

This recipe compiles the Erlang language from source. Installs its own required packages.

This recipe compiles the Elixir language from source. Requires that the system have Erlang installed.

Installs Phoenix framework using Hex. Requires Elixir and Erlang be installed.

This cookbook in the source repository contains chefspec, serverspec tests.

• Author:: Andrew M. Kirschke [email protected]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.