Chef-Solo support

README.md

@@ -102,6 +102,17 @@ which will be expanded to:
       }
     }
 
+Chef Solo Support
+-----------------
+
+This cookbook relies on roles to find backend application servers. This may not be desireable in a simplified chef solo deployment. You must manually specify backend application servers by providing a list of nodes.
+
+For example, reverse proxying to applications on the current node:
+
+    nginx_load_balancer do
+      hosts [node]
+    end
+
 License and Author
 ==================
 

providers/nginx_load_balancer.rb

@@ -42,8 +42,14 @@
     owner "root"
     group "root"
     mode "644"
+
+    hosts = if(Chef::Config[:solo])
+      new_resource.hosts
+    else
+      new_resource.find_matching_role(new_resource.application_server_role, false)
+    end
     variables(:resource => new_resource,
-              :hosts => new_resource.find_matching_role(new_resource.application_server_role, false),
+              :hosts => hosts,
               :application_socket => Array(new_resource.application_socket)
              )
     notifies :reload, resources(:service => 'nginx')

resources/nginx_load_balancer.rb

@@ -30,3 +30,4 @@
 attribute :ssl, :kind_of => [ TrueClass, FalseClass ], :default => false
 attribute :ssl_certificate, :kind_of => String, :default => "#{node['fqdn']}.crt"
 attribute :ssl_certificate_key, :kind_of => String, :default => "#{node['fqdn']}.key"
+attribute :hosts, :default => []