amiramix / chef_go_sample

Deploy a sample go program over SSH using Chef and sh scripts

Introduction

Very basic set of scripts to deploy a sample go program over SSH using Chef and sh scripts.

Idea

On local node:

1. Deploy the content of the app folder to the destination node using SSH
2. Remotely execute the install.sh script on the destination node

In the install.sh script:

1. Install required packages to execute Chef cookbooks
2. Execute the default.rb Chef cookbook using chef-solo

In the default.rb cookbook:

1. Install packages required to run the sample go program
2. Execute the sample go program sample.go

Prerequisites

1. SSH keys set up so that ssh [e-mail] opens the ssh session without prompting for password (use ssh-agent if you want to keys with password)
2. Git installed on the host (from which the scripts are deployed to the destination node)

Usage

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amiramix/chef_go_sample/master/init.sh | sh -s [e-mail]

Where [e-mail] is the node on which the sample program should be installed and started

Limitations

Scripts have been developed and tested on a base FreeBSD server (without any ports or packages installed):

1. They don't use sudo, which is not present in the base. Installing and configuring sudo in addition to this sample program would be an easy, but unnecessary addition considering the purpose of this example.
2. Because of the same reason, some commands may not work as expected in GNU versions of those commands on Linux servers.