Capistrano Chef-solo

This is an attempt to combine the powers of Capistrano and chef-solo.

You can easily specify run lists:

before "deploy" do
  chef.solo "recipe[foo]", "recipe[bar]"
end

And set some node attributes:

set :chef_attributes, :foo => { :bar => "baz" }

Cookbooks will be automatically be copied from config/cookbooks and vendor/cookbooks.

Then an empty VM can be installed, configured and deployed in one single command:

cap deploy

Installation

Add to your Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano_chef_solo', :require => false, :group => :development

And run bundle install.

Next, require me from your Capfile:

require 'capistrano_chef_solo'

Usage

Read the full documentation by typing:

cap --explain chef | less

Note

This gem is in very early stage of development and should be considered as just a spike at this moment. Feel free to use it, and give me feedback on your experiences. But please, try it out on a simple VM first.

Todo

Support roles in both Capistrano and Chef.
Support remote cookbooks

Tips

Colors

Capistrano and chef both give a lot of output. It helps to install capistrano_colors

Vagrant

Using Vagrant is a good way for testing out chef recipes.