chefserver

Ansible Role to Install and Configure Openshource Chef Server

Requirements

Your Chef server must have a resolvable hostname. The hostname for the Chef server must be a FQDN, including the domain suffix. se Ansible hostname module to change hostname to fqdn or use the following role variable to change hostname e.g. chefserver_hostname: chef.4thcoffee.com

When the install is successful, the server can be accessed using https://fqdn

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

chefserver_version: 12.18.14

Specify the version of server to be installed.

chefadmin_name: chefadmin chefadmin_email: admin@4thcoffee.com chefadmin_password: password

Console login credentials for default administrator. Not required if Management Console is not needed.

chef_organization: 4thcoffee
chef_organization_full_name: "Fourth Coffee, Inc."

Chef organization details.

install_management_console: true

Install management console. Default true

create_default_credential: true

Setup default administrator credential. Default true

Dependencies

VM (on-perm or cloud) is needed to install. Tested with the following OS -

1. Redhat Enterprise Linux 7
2. CentOS 7
3. Unbuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
4. Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)

Example Playbook

- name: Install Chef Server
  hosts: servers
  vars_files:
    - vars/main.yml
  roles:
    - role:  riponbanik.chefserver

Installation

Install the role from ansible galaxy to ansible default resarch path

sudo ansible-galaxy install riponbanik.chefserver -p /etc/ansible/roles

Run the installation locally on the machine

sudo ansible-playbook -c local -i "localhost," playbook.yml

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2018 by Ripon Banik