Chef web app developer training - Part 1 steps (draft)

The purpose of this series of tutorials is to take web app developers through the basic knowledge necessary to create and maintain the cookbooks used to deploy web applications.

Here I am using the stack CentOS, Oracle java and tomcat7, but they are generally applicable to the other app stacks.

This part of the tutorial is based off the learnchef.com Chef Workstation Setup getting started article. I'm skipping the Vagrant and VirtualBox installation part until later.

Install Git Bash and Git

Download and install Git bash from http://git-scm.com

Install Ruby & Chef

 

Windows

 Download and run the Windows Chef Installer, accepting the default options.

 Linux

Run the omni installer script from opscode:
$ curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash

Add the embedded ruby and chef to the $PATH
$ echo 'export PATH="/opt/chef/embedded/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile

Mac

Run the omni installer script from opscode:
$ curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash

Add the embedded ruby and chef to the $PATH
$ echo 'export PATH="/opt/chef/embedded/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile


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