Description

This cookbook sets up generic HTTP and HTTPS proxy settings on a Vagrant target so that you can do Chef cookbook development while offline (say, on an airplane). The objective is to make at least the following resources all use the proxy:

• package
• gem / chef_gem
• remote_file

You likely want to use a proxy like Polipo that can return dirty objects from cache if the upstream isn't available.

Requirements

A Vagrant virtual machine. Doesn't matter if it's VMWare or VirtualBox backed, but cloud-backed probably doesn't make a lot of sense for the airplane use case.

Usage

Add recipe[vagrant-httpproxy] to your Vagrant machine's run list.

Attributes

See attributes/default.rb for default values.

• node['vagrant-httpproxy']['proxy-protocol'] - the protocol of your proxy server
• node['vagrant-httpproxy']['proxy-host'] - the host of your proxy server (probably 10.0.2.2 if running VirtualBox with a proxy on your host)
• node['vagrant-httpproxy']['proxy-port'] - the port of your proxy server

Recipes

default

Sets a bunch of attributes at override priority to configure the following things to use the proxy:

• yum (if on a RHEL-type system)
• apt (if on a Debian-type system)
• gem (via writing something out to the /etc/gemrc)
• curl (via writing a /root/.curlrc)

Override priority is chosen for obvious reasons, so as to override any settings one might have in one's own recipes.

To-Do

• Integrate with the vagrant-proxy Vagrant plugin that was started during the ChefConf 2013 hack day. The plugin could conceivably manipulate the run list to add this cookbook automatically, set up / start a proxy on the host machine, and take care of prepopulating Polipo's cache directory with objects from a specified local filesystem directory.

Author

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

Copyright:: 2013, Opscode, Inc.

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

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