Docker image for Chef Server

This Dockerfile installs and configure the Chef Server, Chef Manage, Chef Report. and Postfix for email notification as well.

This Dockerfile has been tested with Chef Server v12.15.8, v12.10.0, v12.19.31 and v12.9.0. It's not guarantee for any other versions, especially v11.x.

How to use this image

Pull the image from Docker hub

docker pull luisra51/chef-server

Run the Container

Run:

docker run -d --privileged \
  --name chef-server \
  -p 443:443 \
  luisra51/chef-server \
  -e USER_NAME=administrator \
  -e FIRST_NAME=NameAdmin \
  -e LAST_NAME=LNameAdmin \
  -e [email protected] \
  -e PASSWORD="ZXhhbXBsZQo="

Please check the log when you run/start/restart the chef-server. It takes a while until fully startup.

docker logs -f chef-server

To verify chef-server version:

docker exec -it chef-server cat /opt/opscode/version-manifest.json | grep build_version

Using volume for data storage

The Dockerfile defines mount points i order to support storing config, data ,and data backup in your storage.

• /etc/opscode: Chef server home.
• /var/opt/opscode: Data directory for all components.
• /var/opt/chef-backup: Data backup directory. If you run the chef-server-ctl backup in the running container, the backup data archive will be stored in this directory.

docker run -d --privileged \
  --name chef-server \
  -v <your-chef-home-directory>:/etc/opscode:rw \
  -v <your-data-directory>:/var/opt/opscode:rw \
  -v <your-backup-directory>:/var/opt/chef-backup:rw \
  -h <your-hostname> \
  -p 443:443 \
  luisra51/chef-server \
  -e USER_NAME=administrator \
  -e FIRST_NAME=NameAdmin \
  -e LAST_NAME=LNameAdmin \
  -e [email protected] \
  -e PASSWORD="ZXhhbXBsZQo="

Run the Container whit Docker-Compose

The docker compose is already configured with volumes.

Run:

docker-compose up -d

Run on Kubernetes Cluster with Helm

The charts k8s-chef-server is already configured by default with volumes type PersistentVolumeClaim but also support NFS volume.

Run:

helm install --name <name-release> --namespace <namespace> k8s-chef-server/

Get admin user and default group key.

Execute the following cli to find the keys.

admin user key:

docker exec -it chef-server cat /etc/opscode/admin.pem

default group validator key:

docker exec -it chef-server cat /var/opscode/default-validator.pem

Access to the Chef Manage Console

You can access and login to the chef manage console through web browser.

https://<your-host>

please use user name that you defined in the environments vars in the example are administrator and password ZXhhbXBsZQo=. don't forget to reset password and key once you login.

Build the Image

Build latest version: current latest is 12.15.8

docker build -t chef-server:latest -t chef-server:12.15.8 .

For my workflow :-)

docker build -t luisra51/chef-server:latest -t luisra51/chef-server:12.19.31 .

To build the chef-server image with specific version such as 12.19.31, you need to pass CHEF_SERVER_VERSION and CHEF_SERVER_DOWNLOAD_SHA1 build-arg. Please find the VERSION and SHA1 for Ubuntu Linux 14.04 x86_64 from https://downloads.chef.io/chef-server/stable/

docker build \
  --build-arg CHEF_SERVER_VERSION=12.19.31 \
  --build-arg CHEF_SERVER_DOWNLOAD_SHA256=fdf02e0ddcb0d4675871c52357e368aaeb6ea0be3565675eeb00691928ccd84d \
  -t chef-server:12.19.31 \
  .

For my workflow:

docker build \
  --build-arg CHEF_SERVER_VERSION=12.19.31 \
  --build-arg CHEF_SERVER_DOWNLOAD_SHA256=fdf02e0ddcb0d4675871c52357e368aaeb6ea0be3565675eeb00691928ccd84d \
  -t luisra51/chef-server:12.19.31 \
  .

Reference

This repository and image is based on sunggun / chef-server https://github.com/sunggun-yu/docker-chef-server