fabric-provision

fabric-provision is a tiny wrapper around Chef Solo. Use it for easy provisioning right out of your fabfile.py.

Have a look at the documentation.

Installation

pip install fabric-provision

Usage

• Create a fabfile.py

from fabric.api import *
from provision import chef, provision

env.hosts = ['vagrant@localhost:2222']

chef.add_recipe('python')

• Assuming you have a Vagrant machine running locally, you can provision it instantly:

$ fab provision

What it does

• apt-get update
• apt-get upgrade
• Install a current version of Chef
• Run your configured recipes

API

provision.chef.add_recipe(recipe)

Adds a recipe to run when provisioning. Alternatively you can just override provision.chef.recipes.

Settings

provision.chef.path

Default:'/var/chef'

Remote path to store cookbooks and cached files.

provision.chef.cookbooks

Default:'cookbooks/'

The local path to your recipes, relative to you fabfile.py.

provision.chef.log_level

Default:'info'

Chef’s log level.

provision.chef.gems

Default:'1.8.10'

Which version of gem to install.

provision.chef.recipes

Default:[]

The list of recipes to run.

provision.chef.json

Default:{}

Additional JSON information you’d like to transfer to the server.

provision.chef.use_omnibus_installer

Default:False

Whether to use the Opscode Omnibus Installer to load Chef.