#postgresql-packer

Packer Postgres builder -- in dev still

uses this cookbook https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/postgresql-packer

of note you’ll want to generate a new pass for the role like it says in the Chef-solo section

copied here:

Chef Solo Note

The following node attribute is stored on the Chef Server when using chef-client. Because chef-solo does not connect to a server or save the node object at all, to have the password persist across chef-solo runs, you must specify them in the json_attribs file used. For Example:

{
  "postgresql": {
    "password": {
      "postgres": "iloverandompasswordsbutthiswilldo"
    }
  },
  "run_list": ["recipe[postgresql::server]"]
}

That should actually be the "encrypted password" instead of cleartext, so you should generate it as an md5 hash using the PostgreSQL algorithm.

• You could copy the md5-hashed password from an existing postgres database if you have postgres access and want to use the same password:
  select * from pg_shadow where usename='postgres';
• You can run this from any postgres database session to use a new password:
  select 'md5'||md5('iloverandompasswordsbutthiswilldo'||'postgres');
• You can run this from a linux commandline:
  echo -n 'iloverandompasswordsbutthiswilldo''postgres' | openssl md5 | sed -e 's/.* /md5/'