This repository contains AWS Cloudformation templates for installing Chef Server 12 in various configurations. You can read more about AWS Cloudformation here.

You can use Cloudformation templates on AWS through either the management console or the command line (provided you have installed the cloudformation command line tools).

Each template takes four variables that need to be provided when a new stack is created.

The following command will create a new standalone stack named ec-aws-poc using the aws command-line tool. This assumes you have $HOME/.aws/config set up correctly:

aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name ec-aws-poc --template-body file:///Users/You/path/to/chef-server-cloudformation-templates/standalone/ec-standalone-centos-6-amd64_ebs_s3cookbooks.template --parameters ParameterKey=KeyName,ParameterValue=your-aws-ssh-key-name --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

Note: The templates are set up assuming the us-east-1 region. Your S3 endpoints may change if you are deploying into another region (e.g. substitute s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com for s3.amazonaws.com if in us-west-2)

You may also upload the templates to the AWS Management Console and create stacks from there.

standalone-centos6_amd64.json installs Chef Server 12 on an EBS-backed CentOS6 instance. Stores cookbooks in S3. The images in use are the ones from Bashton since they include cloud-init.

tiered-centos-6_amd64.json installs Chef Server 12 in tiered mode (single backend, multiple frontends in an autoscaling group)

To set up tiered, you need to perform a few additional steps in advance:

• Place your server SSL certificate and key on an HTTP server reachable by the bootstrap instance. (It would be possible to modify the template so these keys are retrieved from an S3 bucket, but this is left as an exercise to the reader.)
• Upload the SSL certificate and key you wish to use on the frontend Elastic Load Balancer to AWS IAM, and record the ARN.

Note that the stack name has to be 35 characters or less, otherwise the OpenSSL CN will be too long and nginx won't be able to generate a certificate.

Coming soon

• Author:: Julian C. Dunn ([email protected])

Copyright:: 2013-2014 Chef Software, Inc.

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