Awesome capistrano recipe for deploying chef servers (a.k.a chefistrano since now)

What is Chefistrano??

Chefistrano is a tool for deploying chef server nodes to anywhere around the universe.

Why use Chefistrano??

Because is awesome.

How can I buy and use this wonderful tool called Chefistrano?

Paypal button will be implemented soon.

Ok, I already donated a lot of money to the team, how does it works??

Install vagrant in your local machine

download the repo (you know.. dah git cloneh stuffz)

then run

vagrant up

watch and feel the magic running through your monitor.

Enter inside this perfect machine

vagrant ssh

inside /vagrant folder there is a whole new world waiting for you to rediscover chef.

usage:

configure your deploy.rb / environments/.rb

then:

cap staging setup

Will launch the full process of provisioning.. omg do you feel the unicorns running through the internet??

run cap staging -T for extra tasks info.

The task will create deployer user, grant sudo permissions, install chef-server & chef-client, configure knife, download workstation and upload cookbooks and roles.

HOW TO: ADD NODES

edit files/<stage>/nodes.yml

Add or replace the nodes the syntax is:

-
  name: <name of the node>
  role: <role to apply>

All this is only at a paypal click from you.