Smoking Chef!¶ ↑

Smoking Chef is a set of Chef recipes to build a gem-testers smoker. You too, can warm the earth gradually providing QA results for people!

Documentation¶ ↑

Pretty sparse right now, and the project isn’t finished yet, but here goes:

Until this message disappears, use my fork of spatula which will work on Ubuntu 11
- github.com/erikh/spatula
- rake gem && gem install pkg/spatula-*.gem
bootstrap a new machine (VirtualBox will not work, use hardware or VMWare).
- Use Ubuntu 11.04
- Make note of the user account name you created. It will be user below.
- Ensure the ‘openssh server’ role is selected when prompted.
- this machine should preferably have 4G or more of ram, at least 2 cores and VT-x or alike.
run the ‘install_gems.sh’ script, preferably on ruby 1.9.2 or better.
spatula prepare user@host –upload-key –keyfile=$HOME/.ssh/my_key.pub
spatula cook user@host bootstrap
Go play a video game or something

When you’re done, you should have one VM installed, in /storage/machines/ubuntu.

Be aware this pulls a base box off my limited bandwidth host, so be kind.

It is strongly recommended that you fork and customize this project to fit your personal environment.

bootstrap.json has user accounts you should edit, and VMs you can edit.
smoker.json is the node configuration for VMs, and has user accounts you can edit.

More coming later.

-Erik