Using Chef to Deploy A Simple Ionic/Angular Todo App on AWS I spent the better half of two weeks learning Chef as a foray into Infrastructure as code. Devops can be difficult to learn, so I decided to set up a development, staging, and production server on AWS using Chef to manage server setup, package dependencies, and encrypted password vaulting. Repo DevOps can bit a bit tricky to learn – but I set out to deploy a simple Todo list app made with Ionic to a Development, Production, and Staging pipeline on AWS.

Kinto is my favorite NoSql Database option since it is self hosted and has all the features I need. Here’s what I had to do to get it working on my BSD server. Kinto On BSD First install Postgres-server pkg install postgresql96-server-9.6.10 # install dependencies pkg install libffi openssl pkg-config Now, create the Kinto DB # su postgres postgres=# CREATE DATABASE kinto WITH ENCODING UTF8; postgres=# ALTER DATABASE kinto SET TIMEZONE TO UTC; postgres=# CREATE USER kinto WITH PASSWORD 'ihopeyourpasswordisstrongerthanthis'; postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE kinto TO kinto; exit Create a Virtualenv