Sample Roles file

Some recipes are from Opscode, some are from this repo.

  # File: CHEF_HOME/roles/base.json
  {
    "name": "base",
    "description": "This role is the bootstrap for every server, putting admin accounts on it, installing debian/ubuntu sources file, update/upgrade, install networking tools and install libraries for ruby.", 
    "default_attributes": {
      "chef": {
        "server_url": "https://api.opscode.com/organizations/YOUR_ORG",
        "cache_path": "/var/chef/cache",
        "backup_path": "/var/chef/backup",
        "validation_client_name": "YOUR_ORG-validator",
        "run_path": "/var/chef"
      },
      "groups" : {
        "admin" : {
          "gid" : 7000 
        }
      },
      "active_groups" : [
        "admin" 
      ],
      "active_users" : [
        "fred"
        ],
      "users" : {
        "fred" : {
          "password" : "from {openssl passwd -1}",
          "comment" : "Fred",
          "uid" : 7001,
          "groups" : [
            "admin"
          ]
        }
      },
      "ssh_keys" : {
        "fred" : "ssh-rsa AAAAB3N......== fred@Freds-MacBook-Pro.local"
      }
    },
    "json_class": "Chef::Role",
    "run_list": [
      "recipe[build-essential::default]",
      "recipe[debian_basic::default]",
      "recipe[networking_basic::default]",
      "recipe[openssl::default]",
      "recipe[ntp::default]",
      "recipe[git::default]",
      "recipe[subversion::client]",
      "recipe[screen::default]",
      "recipe[ruby:default]",
      "recipe[rubygems:default]",
      "recipe[ruby:source]",
      "recipe[rubygems:default]",
      "recipe[users]",
      "recipe[mysql::server]"
    ],
    "chef_type": "role",
    "override_attributes": {
    }
  }