cheeseplus / chefdk_bootstrap

Set up your laptop for Chef development in minutes

ChefDK_Bootstrap

Setup your laptop for Chef development in minutes

Run one simple command to easily set up your Windows or Mac machine for Chef cookbook development in about 20 minutes.

Before You Begin

• If you are on a Windows machine, you will need at least PowerShell 3.0. We recommend PowerShell 4.0 because it supports Microsoft DSC.

• If you are behind a proxy, you will need to export these proxy environment variables first.

Windows Quickstart

Copy the PowerShell command below and paste them into a PowerShell Admin console. This will download and run the bootstrap script on your workstation.

 (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nordstrom/chefdk_bootstrap/master/bootstrap.ps1).Content | Invoke-Expression

Mac Quickstart

Copy the command below and paste it into a terminal. This will download and run the bootstrap script on your workstation.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nordstrom/chefdk_bootstrap/master/bootstrap | bash

Mac ChefDK profile setup

Follow the instructions in the ChefDK README to complete the Chef workstation setup.

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If you are behind a proxy

Windows

Set Proxy Environment Vars

Copy/paste these environment variables into your terminal.

# change these values to your proxy address
$env:http_proxy='http://myproxy.example.com:1234'

$env:https_proxy=$env:http_proxy

# don't go through the proxy for these addresses.
# change example.com to your corporate DNS domain
$env:no_proxy='localhost,127.0.0.1,example.com'

Use this proxy-aware bootstrap script

Copy the PowerShell command below and paste them into a PowerShell Admin console. This will execute the bootstrap script on your workstation.

 (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nordstrom/chefdk_bootstrap/master/bootstrap.ps1 -ProxyUseDefaultCredentials -Proxy $env:https_proxy).Content | Invoke-Expression

Mac

Copy/paste these environment variables into your terminal.

# change these values to your proxy address
export http_proxy=http://myproxy.example.com:1234

export https_proxy=$http_proxy

# don't go through the proxy for these addresses.
# change example.com to your corporate DNS domain
export no_proxy='localhost,127.0.0.1,example.com'

To make these changes permanent, export these environment variables from your bash or zsh profile.

Now run the Quickstart for Mac

Customization

If you want to use your own custom wrapper cookbook, add the name of your cookbook and your private supermarket source to these commands instead of the original Quickstart (examples included below).

JSON attributes

You can pass in attributes via URL/path to a JSON file (see the --json-attributes option in chef-client ). Right now we're passing this in via the CHEFDK_BOOTSTRAP_JSON_ATTRIBUTES environment variable, but in a future version, we'll likely make it a named parameter of the bootstrap script.

Windows

$env:CHEFDK_BOOTSTRAP_JSON_ATTRIBUTES = "http://server/attributes.json"

Mac

export CHEFDK_BOOTSTRAP_JSON_ATTRIBUTES="http://server/attributes.json"

Custom cookbook

Windows

$install = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nordstrom/chefdk_bootstrap/master/bootstrap.ps1 -ProxyUseDefaultCredentials -Proxy $env:https_proxy).Content

"$install <your cookbook name> <your private supermarket url>" | Invoke-Expression

Mac

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nordstrom/chefdk_bootstrap/master/bootstrap | bash -s -- <your cookbook name> <your private supermarket url>

What does it do?

This cookbook installs these tools:

Editor

Atom, a free, general purpose, cross-platform, open source, text editor. Out of the box, Atom supports all the languages you will need for Chef development: Ruby, PowerShell, Bash, XML, JSON, etc.

Source Control

Git - command line git client and tools.

Local Virtualization

Virtualbox - Oracle's free, open source virtualization tool for local cookbook testing.

Vagrant - ChefDK's included Test Kitchen tool uses Vagrant to spin up local VMs for cookbook testing.

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Recipes

default

• Installs Chocolatey for a Windows machine and homebrew for a Mac machine. Both of these are package managers, similar to apt-get on Ubuntu. Chocolatey is used to install packages like posh-git and kdiff3, while homebrew is used to install packages like iterm2 .

• Installs all the other tools marked true in the node['chefdk_bootstrap']['package'] hash.

• On Windows, includes the Powershell profile configuration recipe.

atom

• Installs the Atom editor

git

• Installs git.
• On Windows, installs git-credential-winstore, and posh-git.

gitextensions

• On Windows, installs gitextensions, a GUI git client.

kdiff3

• On Windows, installs the free, open-source diff/merge tool, kdiff3.

powershell_profile

• Configures a global PowerShell profile to correct the $env:HOME environment variable and run chef shell-init powershell.

vagrant

• Installs Vagrant.

virtualbox

• Installs Virtualbox.

iterm2

• On Mac, installs iterm2.

Attributes

The attributes defined by this recipe are organized under the node['chefdk_bootstrap'] namespace.

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
['atom']['source_url']	Windows: Atom installer package source URL	URL String	https://atom.io/download/windows
['atom']['source_url']	Mac: Atom installer package source URL	URL String	https://atom.io/download/mac
['package']['atom']	Whether to install Atom or not	boolean	true
['package']['kdiff3']	Whether to install kdiff3 or not	boolean	true
['package']['vagrant']	Whether to install Vagrant or not	boolean	true
['package']['virtualbox']	Whether to install Virtualbox or not	boolean	true
['package']['git']	Whether to install git and related packages or not	boolean	true
['package']['gitextensions']	Whether to install gitextensions or not	boolean	true
['package']['iterm2']	Whether to install iterm2 or not	boolean	true
['package']['chefdk_julia']	Whether to install chefdk_julia or not	boolean	false

Author

Nordstrom, Inc.

License

Copyright 2015 Nordstrom, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.