Archive for April 2011

Installing Chef Server 0.10 in CentOS 5 (RHEL 5)

Opscode Chef 0.10.0 client/server packages are now available at rbel.frameos.org Installing a CentOS 5 based Chef Server 1. Install the RBEL repo
rpm -Uvh http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel5
2. Install Chef Server and dependencies
yum install rubygem-chef-server
3. To make things easier, disable the firewall (Don’t do it in a production or public facing server)
service iptables stop
4. Run the setup script
setup-chef-server.sh
Now login to http://your-chef-server:4040 user: admin password: chef321go Packages still need some polishing so any feedback is greatly appreciated. Enjoy! See also: Bootstraping RHEL/CentOS 5 Chef 0.10 nodes using RBEL repo UPDATE: Chef packages updated to 0.10 RC2. Fixed setup issues. Updated post. UPDATE: Chef packages updated to 0.10 GA. UPDATE: Chef packages moved to rbel5 stable. rbel6 packages for RHEL6 coming soon.