This cookbook has been deprecated and moved to the Chef Solutions Organization at https://github.com/chef-solutions/local-development

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Local Development Setup for Chef

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Download and install

chef-dk

virtual box

vagrant

sublime text (optional)

Windows users will need to install git

git

On the screen below make sure to choose 'Use Git and optional Unix tools from the Windows Command Prompt'

Test install

knife -v && chef -v && git --version

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Local cookbook development workflow

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create new cookbook using Berkshelf

chef generate pipeline

change directory to new cookbook

cd pipeline

add jenkins dependency to metadata.rb

name             'pipeline'
maintainer       'YOUR_NAME'
maintainer_email 'YOUR_EMAIL'
license          'All rights reserved'
description      'Installs/Configures pipeline'
long_description 'Installs/Configures pipeline'
version          '0.1.0'

depends          'java'
depends          'jenkins'

add jenkins::java included recipe to recipes/default.rb

#
# Cookbook Name:: pipeline
# Recipe:: default
#
# Copyright (C) 2014 YOUR_NAME
#
# All rights reserved - Do Not Redistribute
#

include_recipe 'java::default'

Add jenkins to recipes/default.rb to create a jenkins master

#
# Cookbook Name:: pipeline
# Recipe:: default
#
# Copyright (C) 2014 YOUR_NAME
#
# All rights reserved - Do Not Redistribute
#

include_recipe 'java::default'
include_recipe 'jenkins::master'

Modify .kitchen.yml to configure port forwarding, cpu/memory settings, update platform to centos-6.5, and set default recipe and attributes

driver:
  name: vagrant

driver_config:
  network:
  - ["forwarded_port", {guest: 8080, host: 8080}]
  - ["private_network", {ip: "33.33.33.10"}]
  customize:
    memory: 2048
    cpus: 2

provisioner:
  name: chef_zero

platforms:
  - name: centos-7.0

suites:
  - name: default
    run_list:  
      pipeline::default
    attributes:

Show all kitchen instances

kitchen list

Run VM for CentOS and converge with configuration

kitchen converge centos

See if jenkins is running

http://localhost:8080

see git status of files added and modified

git status

add all files

git add .

commit all changes

git commit -m "initial commit of pipeline cookbook"