I posted <a href="/2012/05/02/chef_server_installation_on_ubuntu-11.10.html">how to set up chef server on ubuntu-11.10</a>.
CentOS is a popular Linux distributions. I'll describe how to set it up step by step, too.
Install chef-solr as root.
<pre><code class="language-bash">su -
yum install gcc make ruby ruby-devel rubygems
gem install --no-rdoc --no-ri chef-solr
</code></pre>
Create two configuration files,
<a href="https://gist.github.com/2600816">~/solo.rb</a>, <a href="https://gist.github.com/2600821">~/chef.json</a>
You can run chef-solo to install.
<pre><code class="language-bash">$ chef-solo -c solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz
</code></pre>
Important
And, you may need to retry the same command because the 1st execution will be failed due to an error which says yum locking.
If failed, re-run it. And also, it takes so much time in order to compile geocode.
<pre><code class="language-bash">chef-solo -c solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz
</code></pre>
In case finishing without error, open <a href="http://localhost:4000">http://localhost:4000</a> with your browser.
<img src="https://s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/tmtk75.github.com/2012-05-05/chef-server-webui.jpg" alt="chef-server-webui.jpg" width="256px"/>
If you can see above, installation is succeeded!

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