Simple Chef Cookbook for NodeJS on Ubuntu 14.04 for Vagrant [complementary to OpsWorks NodeJS cookbook]

This recipe enables to deploy of a NodeJS app in your Vagrant box. It is complementary to Opsworks NodeJS cookebook for Opsworks deployment : recipes vagrant-node-simple::deploy,vagrant-node-simple::install,vagrant-node-simple:start are equivalent to opsworks_nodejs:default, deploy:nodejs, and parametrization of an Opsworks app is the same as the parametrization of the environment's JSON.

Usage :

Create your Chef repository with a Berksfile, a Vagrantfile and environments and roles directories :

1. In the Berksfile

cookbook 'ark'
cookbook 'git'
cookbook 'apt', git: 'git://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/apt.git'
cookbook 'vagrant-node-simple', git: 'git://github.com/christopher5106/vagrant-node-simple.git'

1. In environments/development.rb :

{
  "name": "development",
  "description": "The master development branch",
  "cookbook_versions": {},
  "json_class": "Chef::Environment",
  "chef_type": "environment",
  "default_attributes": {},
  "override_attributes":
  {
    "environment":"development",
    "nodejs":{
      "name":"YOUR_APP_NAME",
      "repo":"git@bitbucket.org:YOUR_ORG/YOUR_NODE_APP_REPO.git",
      "revision":"HEAD"
    }
  }
}

1. In roles/nodejs_role.rb :

name "my node app"
description "The base role"
run_list "recipe[git]","recipe[apt]","recipe[ark]","recipe[vagrant-node-simple::deploy]","recipe[vagrant-node-simple::install]","recipe[vagrant-node-simple:start]"

1. In the Vagrantfile

    VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

    Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
      config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
      config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3000, host: 3000
      config.berkshelf.enabled = true;
      config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
        chef.cookbooks_path = "./"
        chef.roles_path = "roles"
        chef.environments_path = "environments"
        chef.environment = "development"
        chef.add_role("nodejs_role")
      end
    end

1. Add your node app repository deploy key deploy.pem to your repository and give it the right permissions (chmod 600 ./deploy.pem).

2. Commit your Chef repository.

You can Launch your instance with vagrant up command.

In Opsworks,

• create a stack with your Chef repository, Chef and Berkshelf enabled (no need for a custom JSON, everything will be in the app settings.)

• create a NodeJS layer (you can also create a custom layer and add the recipe "opsworks_nodejs" to the setup step, the recipe "opsworks_nodejs::configure" to the configure step, and the recipe to "deploy::nodejs" to the deploy step).

• create an app with the link to your YOUR_NODE_APP_REPO.

Launch your instance in Opsworks. Opsworks will deploy the code corresponding to the Branch/Revision specified in the app configuration, to the HEAD if not specified.

You can configure a hook in Github so that committed code will be automatically deployed in Opsworks.

Note : for your NodeJS app to work with Opsworks cookbook, you need a server.js file at the root of your YOUR_NODE_APP_REPO. Link