Installing chef-server in a docker container

chef-infra docker linux-containers
Greg picture Greg · Apr 10, 2014 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

I have been trying to install Chef-Server in a Docker container and I am having some trouble. I am running a VM with an up to date version of Ubuntu 12.04 and latest install of Docker. I run a base Docker Ubuntu 12.04 container and install chef-server, version 11.0.12 and that goes well. The problem is running the required 'sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure' step after install. The setup freezes at 

  * link[/opt/chef-server/init/rabbitmq] action create (up to date)
  * link[/opt/chef-server/service/rabbitmq] action create (up to date)
  * **ruby_block[supervise_rabbitmq_sleep] action run**

and I get a stacktrace.out of

**SystemExit: ruby_block[supervise_rabbitmq_sleep] (chef-server::rabbitmq line 161) had an error: SystemExit: exit**
/opt/chef-server/embedded/cookbooks/runit/definitions/runit_service.rb:165:in `sleep'
/opt/chef-server/embedded/cookbooks/runit/definitions/runit_service.rb:165:in `block (3 levels) in from_file'

If anyone has experienced this and/or has any ideas I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

Answer

Mark O'Connor picture Mark O'Connor · Apr 29, 2014

There is an image available in the docker registry. 

docker pull  base/chef-server
docker run -d -p 443:443 base/chef-server

The Dockerfile is available here:

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