This is a sample chef repository and installation steps document for CentOS6.

At this repository you don't use chef-server. You only use chef-solo and git command in the custom bash script chef-host.

Following will build your CentOS sever environment in a few steps.

1. Modify your host name.

    # vi /etc/sysconfig/network
   

   You need to edit like following.

    NETWORKING=yes
    HOSTNAME=web
   

2. Reboot system to use modified hostname.

    # reboot
   

3. Install chef using Omnibus. You only run below command.

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

   note) Omunibus is a installer of chef packaging. If you want to get more infomations, see http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/06/29/omnibus-chef-packaging/.

4. Install git

    # yum install -y git
   

5. Clone this git repository

    # git clone https://github.com/kohkimakimoto/chef-for-centos.git /var/chef
   

6. Run chef-solo using following command

    # sh /var/chef/bin/chef-host
   

   You will get environments of Apache(httpd), MySQL, PHP and 3rd party yum repositories(remi and epel).

The following page is my blog post about it written in Japanese.

http://kohkimakimoto.hatenablog.com/entry/2013/02/15/121741