Rubygems AWS Infrastructure Configuration

Chef cookbooks and bootstrap scripts to configure and manage Rubygems.org AWS infrastructure

Note: This repository requires Ruby 1.9.x.

Hacking in Vagrant

$ bundle install
$ librarian-chef install
$ vagrant up
$ cap chef

Hacking on EC2

Edit nodes/app.rubygems.org.json
* Add your username to ["authorization"]["sudo"]["users"]
* Add your user to the "users" hash
  {
    "username": "ruby",
    "comment":  "Rubygems AWS",
    "password": "generated_password",
    "ssh_keys": [
      "your ssh key"
    ]
  }
  You can generate an encrypted password using 'mkpasswd -m sha-512'
* Add a newrelic license to ["new\_relic"]["license\_key"]
  Alternately remove "recipe[newrelic-sysmond]" from roles/monitoring.rb

$ bundle install
$ librarian-chef install
$ ec2-run-instances ami-b89842d1
# Get hostname from ec2-describe-instances
$ export RUBYGEMS_EC2_APP=ec2-*.amazonaws.com
$ export RUBYGEMS_EC2_LB1=ec2-*.amazonaws.com
$ export RUBYGEMS_EC2_DB1=ec2-*.amazonaws.com
$ cap ec2 bootstrap
$ cap ec2 chef

AMI's

All AMI's use instance root storage and are 64 bit.

• "ap-northeast-1": "ami-70a91271"
• "ap-southeast-1": "ami-15226047"
• "eu-west-1": "ami-3a0f034e"
• "sa-east-1": "ami-6beb3376"
• "us-east-1": "ami-d726abbe"
• "us-west-1": "ami-827252c7"
• "ap-southeast-2": "ami-7f7ee945"
• "us-west-2": "ami-ca2ca4fa"

Knife bootstrap template

There's a bootstrap template for knife bootstrap or knife ec2 (which leverages bootstrap). It is WIP.

Use it with -d chef-full-solo passed to knife bootstrap or knife ec2 server create.

Knife configuration

If you wish to modify the knife configuration, e.g. AWS options for knife ec2 or Chef Server URL/keys, put them in .chef/knife.local.rb and it will be loaded automatically.

# Chef Server example
node_name                "your-user-name"
client_key               "/Users/your-user-name/.chef/your-usern-name.pem"
validation_client_name   "your-organization-name-validator"
validation_key           "/Users/jtimberman/.chef/your-organization-name-validator.pem"
chef_server_url          "https://api.opscode.com/organizations/your-organization-name"
# EC2 example (add the env variables)
knife[:aws_access_key_id]      = ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID']
knife[:aws_secret_access_key]  = ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']

Private keys

Any private keys you see in this repo are "trash keys" that are not used in production, they are for testing only.