- Enforce Chef Server 11 (instead of lastest Chef Server version)

- Reduced image size (From 1.319GB to 1.025GB)

Dockerfile

@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@ FROM ubuntu:14.04
 MAINTAINER Clement Buisson <[email protected]>
 #This is a fork of base/chef-server
 
-RUN apt-get update
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
-
-RUN apt-get install -yq wget curl
-RUN wget --content-disposition "http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86_64&v=latest&prerelease=false&nightlies=false"
-RUN dpkg -i chef-server*.deb
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -yq --no-install-recommends wget curl && \
+    wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition "http://www.opscode.com/chef/download-server?p=ubuntu&pv=14.04&m=x86_64&v=11&prerelease=false&nightlies=false" && \
+    dpkg -i chef-server*.deb && \
+    rm chef-server*.deb && \
+    apt-get remove -y wget && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 RUN dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl
 RUN ln -sf /bin/true /sbin/initctl

README.md

@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
 # chef-server
 
-chef-server is running Chef server 11 on an Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 LTS
+chef-server is running Chef Server 11 in a Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 LTS container.
+Image Size: 1.025 GB
 
 This is a fork of: [base/chef-server](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/base/chef-server/).
 
 ## Environment
 Chef is running over HTTPS/443 by default. You can however change that to another port by updating the `CHEF_PORT` variable and the expose port `-p`.
 
+You will need to use Chef 11.X in order to be able to use Knife.
+Check Knife's version:
+```bash
+cbuisson@t530:~# knife -v
+Chef: 11.16.4
+```
+*If you have Chef 12 installed on your Docker server, you will need to use* `knife ssl fetch` *in order to get the SSL certificates from the container. Don't forget to update `chef_server_url` with the container ID in knife.rb!*
+
 ## Usage
 *With log output:*
 
@@ -23,7 +32,19 @@ $ docker run --privileged -e CHEF_PORT=443 --name chef-server -d -p 443:443 cbui
 Once the Chef server is configured, you can download the Knife admin keys here:
 
 ```
-$ curl -Ok https://IP:CHEF_PORT/knife_admin_key.tar.gz
+$ curl -Ok https://IP_HOST:CHEF_PORT/knife_admin_key.tar.gz
 ```
 
 Then un-tar that archive and point your knife.rb to the `admin.pem` and `chef-validator.pem` files.
+
+*knife.rb* example:
+```bash
+log_level                :info
+log_location             STDOUT
+cache_type               'BasicFile'
+node_name                'admin'
+client_key               '/home/cbuisson/.chef/admin.pem'
+validation_client_name   'chef-validator'
+validation_key           '/home/cbuisson/.chef/chef-validator.pem'
+chef_server_url          'https://IP_HOST:CHEF_PORT'
+```