How to use Chef and create Laravel environment automatically

Follow steps written here and create basic cookbooks for PHP environment.

After that, you should have cookbooks like this:

Create Virtual Box for chef

We will create a virtual server. Create a folder for the virtual server and Vagrant and run these commands on Command Prompt. (Not Powershell now)

(If you don't know how to use Vagrant and Virtual box)

cd C:\Users\John\Documents\vagrant\CentOsChef
vagrant init bento/centos-7.3

Change the file "Vagrantfile" and use the private network.

And start the virtual server.

vagrant up

Please make sure there is ".ssh" folder in C:\Users\John. If not, create the folder by running this command:

cd C:\Users\John
mkdir .ssh

After that, run these commands:

cd C:\Users\John\Documents\vagrant\CentOsChef
vagrant ssh-config --host CentOsChef >> %USERPROFILE%/.ssh/config

"CentOsChef" is a name of your virtual machine. "ssh-config" is a command to create a file and to make connection to the virtual machine easier. If there is old ssh-config information using a same alias name, delete the old one and leave only the new one.

Create a cookbook for laravel

Open Powershell (ChefDK) and go to the folder of Chef on Powershell:

cd C:\Users\John\Documents\chef

Create a cookbook for laravel environment.

chef generate cookbook cookbooks/proj_laravel

Update the virtual machine so that the shared folder works

And create a new cookbook for updating vagrant:

chef generate cookbook cookbooks/vagrant_update

Add depends 'yum-ius' in chef\cookbooks\vagrant_update\metadata.rb.
Add cookbook 'yum-ius' in chef\cookbooks\vagrant_update\Berksfile.
Add the following in chef\cookbooks\vagrant_update\recipes\default.rb:

include_recipe 'yum-ius'

package ['kernel-devel', 'kernel-headers', 'dkms', 'gcc', 'gcc-c++'] do
  action   :install
end

package 'kernel' do
  action   :upgrade
end

Update the cookbook of laravel

Add the following in chef\cookbooks\proj_laravel\Berksfile

apps_path = 'C:/Users/Shu/Documents/chef/cookbooks/'
cookbook 'vagrant_update',     path: apps_path + 'vagrant_update'
cookbook 'app_httpd',           path: apps_path + 'app_httpd'
cookbook 'app_mysql_server', path: apps_path + 'app_mysql_server'
cookbook 'app_php71u',             path: apps_path + 'app_php71u'
cookbook 'app_php71u_mysqlnd',     path: apps_path + 'app_php71u_mysqlnd'

Add the following in chef\cookbooks\proj_laravel\metadata.rb

depends 'vagrant_update'
depends 'app_httpd'
depends 'app_mysql_server'
depends 'app_php71u'
depends 'app_php71u_mysqlnd'

Add the following in chef\cookbooks\proj_laravel\recipes\default.rb

include_recipe 'vagrant_update'
include_recipe 'app_httpd'
include_recipe 'app_mysql_server'
include_recipe 'app_php71u'
include_recipe 'app_php71u_mysqlnd'

service 'httpd' do
    action :restart
end

service 'mysqld' do
    action :restart
end

bash 'install_composer' do
  code <<-EOH
    curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
    mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
    EOH
end

bash 'laravel_install' do
  code <<-EOH
    cd /vagrant
    curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
    mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
    composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel
  EOH
end

bash 'set_permission' do
  code <<-EOH
    chmod -R 777 /vagrant/laravel/storage
  EOH
end

ruby_block "httpd conf replace to make allowOverride all" do
  block do
    fe = Chef::Util::FileEdit.new("/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf")
    fe.search_file_replace(/\<Directory \"\/var\/www\/html\"\>[\s\S\n]*?\<\/Directory\>/,
                               "<Directory \"/var/www/html\" />Options FollowSymLinks\nAllowOverride All\nRequire all granted\n</Directory>")
    fe.write_file
  end
end

ruby_block "httpd conf replace to change document root" do
  block do
    fe = Chef::Util::FileEdit.new("/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf")
    fe.search_file_replace(/DocumentRoot \"\/var\/www\/html\"/,
                               "DocumentRoot \"/var/www/html/laravel/public\"")
    fe.write_file
  end
end

service 'httpd' do
    action :restart
end

service 'mysqld' do
    action :restart
end

Then update the Chef files on Powershell (ChefDK).

berks vendor -b cookbooks/proj_cake3/Berksfile --delete

Start creating the Laravel environment.

knife zero bootstrap CentOsChef -N chef_laravel -z -r 'recipe[proj_laravel]' --sudo

Wait for a while until the result appears on Powershell (ChefDK)....
If all of them worked successfully, you can access http://192.168.33.10/ and see the laravel's top page.

But maybe you need to manually do:
composer install
php artisan key:generate