Food Court¶ ↑

Food Court is a streamlined way to use chef-solo and capistrano for VPS’s such as slicehost. Setup a new slice in 15 minutes or less.

Instructions¶ ↑

• install the gem

  gem install food_court
  

• cd into your project

  food-court init

• add your root user, password, and host to config/chef/bootstrap.rb for bootstrapping your slice

• setup your slice for chef

  food-court bootstrap

• modify your order.rb to add your desired user name and passwords and change any default packages

• then run update to push up your cookbooks and configure the server with chef-solo

  food-court update

Cookbooks¶ ↑

• You can provide your own customizations inside of ‘site-cookbooks’ these get zipped up and pushed to your server. This allows you to override or create more custom recipes for your app.

• The default stack uses a base set of cookbooks merged from opscode and 37signals by akitaonrails. They have been stripped down to just the essentials and can be found at github.com/gvarela/food_court_cookbooks. You can actually use any cookbooks you would like just change the order.rb to point to your favorite repository.

• The food_court_cookbooks repository will be a mirror of recipes that are known to work together on simple apps for hosts such as Slicehost. Feel free to fork it and add your own.

Gotchas¶ ↑

Since Food Court uses Chef you are bound to run into some Chef specific issues

Chef help: wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home

A good intro to chef-solo: akitaonrails.com/2010/02/20/cooking-solo-with-chef

a common issue on slicehost is the fqdn in /etc/hosts

67.xx.xx.xx my-slice

should be

67.xx.xx.xx my-slice.local my-slice

Roadmap¶ ↑

• add cucumber features for integration testing

• enable rollingback a deployment

• enable setup to accept a remote location for template packages

Note on Patches/Pull Requests¶ ↑

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2010 Gabe Varela. See LICENSE for details.

Inspiration¶ ↑

Josh Peek: github.com/josh/slicehost/

Thomas Balthazar: github.com/suitmymind/ubuntu-machine/

Mike Hale: github.com/mikehale/drive-thru/

Thanks¶ ↑

Fabio Akita for the great article on chef-solo akitaonrails.com/2010/02/20/cooking-solo-with-chef