faye cookbook

Installs Faye

Requirements

The dependencies are assumed to be downloaded from the Chef Supermarket cookbook repository.

• nodejs cookbook
• git cookbook

Usage

include_recipe 'faye::default'

Then add any attributes below that you will want to change to the defaults you use internally. Specifically you should override faye.key at a minimum. Depending on your use case, you may want to add a recipe in your wrapper cookbook that deals with the web server proxy setup.

Attributes

General

• node['faye']['user'] = "faye" - user to run faye as, the cookbook will create the user if it does not exist.
• node['faye']['group'] = "users" - group used on directory creation.
• node['faye']['install_method'] = 'deploy_revision' - method for installing faye: either package or deploy_revision.

Configuration

These are configuration parameters that will be passed directly to faye via the init scripts. Please see the faye documentation for more details on these attributes.

• node['faye']['port'] = 9292
• node['faye']['key'] = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
• node['faye']['endpoint_path'] = '/faye'

Init Style: Systemd

• node['faye']['systemd']['env_path'] = '/etc/sysconfig'

Install Method: Deploy Revision

This install methods installs directly from source. It is highly recommended that if you use this method that you specify a particular faye.branch and your own fork via faye.repo. This will minimize impact of changes by upstream that you do not control.

• node['faye']['path'] = "/srv/faye" - location where to install faye
• node['faye']['deploy_user'] = "root" - user who will run git and own the deployed repo.
• node['faye']['deploy_group'] = "users" - group who will own the deployed repo.
• node['faye']['deploy_migrate'] = false - do not run deploy_revision migrations
• node['faye']['deploy_action'] = "deploy" - action to pass to the deploy_revision resource.
• node['faye']['repo'] = "git://github.com/morr/faye-server.git" - location of the faye git repo.
• node['faye']['branch'] = "master" - the branch or tag to clone