Chef cookbooks for the CLSI

Chef is a server configuration tool which lets you quickly and easily set up and replicate a server. These files provide the necessary instructions to set up a server running an instance of the Common LaTeX Service Interface.

Usage

Note that only Ubuntu 12.04 is currently supported. This configuration may well work with other systems but it hasn't been tested

On a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04, run the following commands as root to install chef and some necessary utilities:

echo "deb http://apt.opscode.com/ `lsb_release -cs`-0.10 main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opscode.list
mkdir -p /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 83EF826A
gpg --export [email protected] | tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/opscode-keyring.gpg > /dev/null 
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install chef git-core build-essential

Now checkout this repository to a directory of your choice:

git clone git://github.com/scribtex/clsi-chef.git

You will need to write tell chef about some server specific configs. Modify node.json:

{
  "clsi" : {
    "host" : "clsi.example.com",
    "token" : "clsi-token",
    "database" : {
      "name"     : "clsi",
      "user"     : "clsi",
      "password" : "bananas"
    }
  },
  "mysql" : {
    "server_root_password" : "potatoes",
    "server_repl_password" : "potatoes",
    "server_debian_password" : "potatoes"
  },
  "run_list" : [ "mysql::server", "mysql::client", "mysql::ruby", "clsi" ]
}

Hopefully the meaning of these attributes is clear. clsi.host should be set to where your server can be found, either an IP address or the DNS entry. This is used to tell clients where they can find the resources that have been generated. clsi.token should be a unique string that will identify your client. It is like a password, and the token that you provide will be set up as the default user.

Then finally run chef to set up the server (this may take a long time the first time since TexLive needs to be downloaded, and nginx and ruby-enterprise compiled):

chef-solo -j node.json -c solo.rb

Users

Clients identify themselves to the CLSI with a token. You can set a default token in the config as shown above, but to create additional users you need to use the command line:

cd /var/www/clsi/current
script/console production
>> User.create :name => "Jane Bloggs", :email => "[email protected]"

A token is generated automatically and will be displayed when the user is created.