Installation¶
We’re excited to help you install Private Chef!
Your first step is to make sure you meet the universal prerequisites - regardless of how you install Private Chef, you’ll need to make sure these steps are complete.
Next, this guide provides details on 3 different installation options:
- Standalone Private Chef on a single server
- Tiered: Private Chef on multiple servers
- High Availability: Private Chef on multiple servers with a highly available data storage layer
Your Opscode representative can provide guidance on which option is
right for your environment. If you are in doubt, follow the
standalone installation.
Once you have Private Chef installed, you’ll want to move on to creating a user and creating an organization.
- Universal Prerequisites
- Downloading Private Chef
- Choosing a Supported Operating Systems
- Configuring the Operating System
- Standalone Installation
- System Requirements
- Network Requirements
- Place the Private Chef package on the server
- Install the Private Chef package
- Configure Private Chef
- Success!
- Tiered Installation
- Overview
- System Requirements
- Network Requirements
- Create your private-chef.rb configuration file
- Place the Private Chef package on the servers
- Place the private-chef.rb in /etc/opscode on the bootstrap server
- Install the Private Chef package on the bootstrap server
- Configure Private Chef on the bootstrap server
- Copy the contents of /etc/opscode from the bootstrap server to the front-end servers
- Install the Private Chef package on the front-end servers
- Configure Private Chef on the front-end servers
- Success!
- High Availability Installation
- Overview
- System Requirements
- Network Requirements
- Create your private-chef.rb configuration file
- Place the Private Chef package on the servers
- Place the private-chef.rb in /etc/opscode on the bootstrap server
- Install the Private Chef package on the back-end servers
- Install DRBD on both of the back-end servers
- Configure DRBD on the bootstrap back-end server
- Copy configuration to the non-bootstrap back-end server
- Configure DRBD on the non-bootstrap back-end server
- Make the bootstrap server primary for DRBD
- Create and mount the filesystem on the DRBD device
- Monitor the initial device synchronization
- Configure Private Chef on the bootstrap server
- Configure Private Chef on the non-bootstrap back-end server
- Copy the contents of /etc/opscode from the bootstrap server to the front-end servers
- Install the Private Chef package on the front-end servers
- Configure Private Chef on the front-end servers
- Success!
- Using GRE Tunnels
- Initial User Creation
- Initial Organization Creation
- Initial Organization Creation
- Active Directory / LDAP Configuration
- Configuring Active Directory / LDAP
- Check Your Work
- Success!
