Magento Cookbook

Collection of recipes to build app stack for the Magento deployments with
Chef

Installation

Run the following commands with-in your Chef Repository:

knife cookbook site install magento
knife cookbook upload magento

Usage

NOTE: currently here is no recipes to deploy actual magento code except
[magento::sample], so, I encourage everyone to contribute deployment
workflows :)

1. first of all checkout the recipes available, see metadata.rb
2. decide the prefered frontend, i.e. nginx, apache, etc.
3. decide if you will put database and frontend on a single or different nodes
4. include the recipes where you want the app stack and database configured

For example, you could start with the following Chef Roles:

# roles/app.rb
name "app"
run_list "recipe[magento::nginx]"

# roles/db.rb
name "db"
run_list "recipe[magento::mysql]"
default_attributes "mysql" => {
"bind_address" => "127.0.0.1",
"tunable" => {
    "innodb_buffer_pool_size" => "1GB",
    "table_cache" => "1024",
    "query_cache_size" => "64M",
    "query_cache_limit" => "2M"
}
}

And then bootstrap Rackspace Cloud Servers instance with:

knife rackspace server create 'role[app],role[db]' --server-name magebox --image 49 --flavor 3

Or if you like to deploy sample site:

knife rackspace server create 'recipe[magento::sample]' --server-name magebox --image 49 --flavor 3

See Launch Cloud Instances with Knife for the reference.

Hacking

The project commes with a helper tasks for bootstraping recipes in a sandbox
environment:

bundle install
bundle exec rake sandbox:init
bundle exec rake sandbox:up

See complete list of the tasks available with:

bundle exec rake -T

NOTE: The sandbox environment depends on VirtualBox thru the Vagrant
project. Please check Vagrant manual and make sure you've correct version of
VirtualBox installed.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request