Deploying huginn on any server or virtualbox using chef solo and or vagrant

Any Server with Chef

local Vagrant

Deploying Huginn with Chef Solo

Chef cookbooks for deploying Huginn are available in deployment. Use the role role[huginn_production] to deploy Huginn to a production environment or the role role[huginn_development] to deploy to a development environment.

Here are instructions for deploying Huginn to any server using chef solo.

First, install knife-solo:

gem install knife-solo

This will also install chef solo.

Next, install the librarian-chef gem:

gem install librarian-chef

Install the cookbooks listed in the Cheffile by running:

cd deployment && librarian-chef install

Now, to deploy Huginn in production mode on a newly created Server or VPS, run:

knife solo bootstrap [user@]hostname -r role[huginn_production]

In future you can redeploy to this host by just running

knife solo cook [user@]hostname

You can provide ssh options like -i (identity file) and -p (SSH port) to knife if needed.

This generates a config file in your local huginn folder at deployment/nodes/hostname.json

• Note: If you forget to add -r role[huginn_production] when you run the command the first time, you will have to manually edit this file to add the contents {"run_list":["role[huginn_production]"]}

When this finishes, Huginn should be installed and running on your server at port 80. Visit your server to check it out. A new user has been created for managing Huginn with username huginn and password huginn (please change it right away by logging in and typing passwd). Huginn is installed in the home directory of huginn at /home/huginn. Setup follows Capistrano standards, so the current, shared, and releases directories are present with current symlinked to the most recent deployment in releases. Nginx is running and proxy-passing to a Unicorn server, with config files at /home/huginn/shared/config/nginx.conf and /home/huginn/shared/config/unicorn.rb respectively, which you can change according to your needs and redeploy by running above mentioned command. Before redeploying, make sure that Huginn isn't already running by stopping it with sudo stop huginn. You can start, stop, or restart Huginn with these commands:

sudo start huginn
sudo stop huginn
sudo restart huginn

If you would like to use your private Huginn repo, then you will have to replace https://github.com/cantino/huginn with the URL of your Huginn private repo in the deploy resource's repo attribute here: deployment/site-cookbooks/huginn_production/recipes/default.rb.

Deploying Huginn with Vagrant

You can also use Vagrant to play with Huginn locally.

Install necessary plugins

vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus
vagrant plugin install vagrant-librarian-chef

Download Huginn

git clone git://github.com/cantino/huginn.git

Start the VM using the Virtualbox provider

cd huginn/deployment
librarian-chef install
vagrant up

Start the VM using the Parallels Desktop provider

cd huginn/deployment
librarian-chef install
vagrant up --provider=parallels

Connect to the VM with SSH

vagrant ssh

You should now be able to visit http://localhost:3000 to use Huginn on your local computer. It uses the role[huginn_development] chef role. A new user with username admin and password password is created and Huginn is installed at /home/huginn/huginn

Other vagrant commands worth knowing

Disconnect from the VM

exit

Stop the VM gracefully

vagrant halt

Stop the VM forcefully (like unplugging the power from a machine)

vagrant halt -f

Stop and destroy the VM (and anything you change while using it)

vagrant destroy