Bootstrapping chef with cloud-init and omnibus

Dear reader,

Please don’t use cloud-init’s chef bootstrapper, because it’s not being maintained and doesn’t offer you locking the version either.

#cloud-config
# ^ This line's actually required! Like a shebang!
# https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GD6qtc2_AQA/maxresdefault.jpg
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36921195/user-data-not-being-execute-by-cloud-init

write_files:
  - path: /etc/chef/acme-organization-validation.pem
    permissions: '0600'
    encoding: gz
    content:
      YOUR PEM GOES HERE

  - path: /etc/chef/client.rb
    content: |
      chef_server_url "https://chef.acme.com/organizations/acme"
      validation_client_name   "acme-validator"
      validation_key           "/etc/chef/acme-organization-validation.pem"

  - path: /etc/chef/boot.json
    content: |
      {"run_list": ["role[cookbook]"]}

runcmd:
  - curl -LO "https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh"
  - bash ./install.sh -v 12.19
  - rm install.sh
  - [
    chef-client,
    "--environment", _default,
    "-j", "/etc/chef/boot.json",
    "-N", "${domain}"
  ]
  - rm "/etc/chef/acme-organization-validation.pem"