deploy_tracks

A Chef's cookbook repository for a DevOps job test

Summary

This cookbook will help you to deploy the Ruby on Rails application Tracks behind a nginx reverse proxy.

Compatibility

This cookbook only have been tested under a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS node. Maybe it could works on other versions, but I can't guarantee it.

Prerequisites

This cookbook has the next dependencies:

• the oficial apt cookbook of opscode.
• the oficial tar cookbook of opscode

To satisfice this dependencies, you can add this cookbooks in the run_list of your node or run berks install to download them from Supermarket into the cache.

Versions of development

• Chef Development Kit Version: 2.0.28
• chef-client version: 13.2.20
• berks version: 6.2.0
• kitchen version: 1.16.0
• inspec version: 1.31.1
• Docker version 17.05.0-ce, build 89658be

Testing

This cookbook has a functional kitchen file (.kitchen.yml) to deploy and testing under a Docker machine based in Ubuntu 14.04 Lts. The driver used is kitchen-dokken, the semioficial test-kitchen plugin to usage Docker.

This machine has binded the 3000 (rails server) and 80 (nginx) ports on host ports 3001 and 8080.

Usage

• Run pulls (if missing) the chef/chef image from the Docker hub and creates a volume container named chef-.

kitchen create

• Deploy the cookbook inside the container and keep it running:

time kitchen converge

• Login into the running container

kitchen login deploy-tracks-ubuntu-1404

• Destroy the container:

kitchen destroy deploy-tracks-ubuntu-1404

For more information about this topic:

• The documentaion of Opscode about kitchen
• "How it works" of the kitchen-dokken repo