Smoking Chef is a set of Chef recipes to build a gem-testers smoker. You too, can warm the earth gradually providing QA results for people!

Pretty sparse right now, and the project isn’t finished yet, but here goes:

• Until this message disappears, use my fork of spatula which will work on Ubuntu 11

  • github.com/erikh/spatula

  • rake gem && gem install pkg/spatula-*.gem

• bootstrap a new machine (VirtualBox will not work, use hardware or VMWare).

  • Use Ubuntu 11.04

  • Make note of the user account name you created. It will be user below.

  • Ensure the ‘openssh server’ role is selected when prompted.

  • this machine should preferably have 4G or more of ram, at least 2 cores and VT-x or alike.

• run the ‘install_gems.sh’ script, preferably on ruby 1.9.2 or better.

• spatula prepare user@host –upload-key –keyfile=$HOME/.ssh/my_key.pub

• spatula cook user@host bootstrap

• Go play a video game or something

When you’re done, you should have one VM installed, in /storage/machines/ubuntu.

Be aware this pulls a base box off my limited bandwidth host, so be kind.

It is strongly recommended that you fork and customize this project to fit your personal environment.

• bootstrap.json has user accounts you should edit, and VMs you can edit.

• smoker.json is the node configuration for VMs, and has user accounts you can edit.

More coming later.

-Erik