MS IIS Server

Installs and configures MS IIS8 Server

Features

• Install and configure MS IIS8 Server
• Manage Application Pools
• Manage Sites
• Manage Applications

Configurations

• MS IIS8 Server 2008R2, MS Windows 2012-R2 Server (us-east-1/ami-ba13abd2), AWS EC2 m3.medium, Administrator

Pre-requisites

• Configured Cloud Account a in chosen environment
• Either installed Chef on target compute OR launch under Administrator
• Either installed Cygwin on target compute OR launch under Administrator
• Internet access from target compute:
  • Microsoft SQL server distribution and additions
  • S3 bucket with Chef recipes: qubell-starter-kit-artifacts

Implementation notes

• Installation is based on Chef recipes from https://github.com/qubell-bazaar/cookbook_qubell_iis

Configuration parameters

• input.server-os: List of available Amazon AMI ID and user identity
• input.server-os-password: Administrator's password
• input.server-instance-size: Amazon instance type
• input.instance-prefix: Custom Prefix for AWS console Name tag
• input.recipe-url: URL to chef cookbooks tarball
• input.iis-modules: List of additional IIS modules to install

Configuration parameters

• input.server-os: List of available Amazon AMI ID and user identity
• input.server-os-password: Administrator's password
• input.server-instance-size: Amazon instance type
• input.instance-prefix: Custom Prefix for AWS console Name tag
• input.recipe-url: URL to chef cookbooks tarball
• input.iis-modules: List of additional IIS modules to install

Action parameters:

Manage Application Pools:

• pool-name: Desired Application Pool name (string).

• pool-properties: Additional Pool properties (object).

  Available properties:

  • pool_name - name attribute. Specifies the name of the pool to create.
  • runtime_version - specifies what .NET version of the runtime to use.
  • pipeline_mode - specifies what pipeline mode to create the pool with
  • private_mem - specifies the amount of private memory (in kilobytes) after which you want the pool to recycle
  • worker_idle_timeout - specifies the idle time-out value for a pool, d.hh:mm:ss, d optional
  • recycle_after_time - specifies a pool to recycle at regular time intervals, d.hh:mm:ss, d optional
  • recycle_at_time - schedule a pool to recycle at a specific time, d.hh:mm:ss, d optional
  • max_proc - specifies the number of worker processes associated with the pool.
  • thirty_two_bit - set the pool to run in 32 bit mode, true or false
  • no_managed_code - allow Unmanaged Code in setting up IIS app pools
  • pool_username - username for the identity for the application pool
  • pool_password password for the identity for the application pool

  Minimum required example: "{"action":"add"}"

Manage Site:

• site-name: Desired site name (string).

• site-properties: Additional Site properties (object).

  Available properties:

  • product_id - name attribute. Specifies the ID of a product to install.
  • site_name - name attribute.
  • site_id - if not given IIS generates a unique ID for the site
  • path - IIS will create a root application and a root virtual directory mapped to this specified local path
  • protocol - http protocol type the site should respond to. valid values are :http, :https. default is :http
  • port - port site will listen on. default is 80
  • host_header - host header (also known as domains or host names) the site should map to. default is all host headers
  • options - additional options to configure the site
  • bindings - Advanced options to configure the information required for requests to communicate with a Web site. See http://www.iis.net/configreference/system.applicationhost/sites/site/bindings/binding for parameter format. When binding is used, port protocol and host_header should not be used.
  • application_pool - set the application pool of the site
  • options - support for additional options -logDir, -limits, -ftpServer, etc...

  Minimum required example: "{"action":["add","start"],"application_pool":"test-pool", "bindings":"http://*:80"}"

Manage Application:

• app-name: Desired Application name (string).

• site-name: Site where you want create application (string).

• app-properties: Additional application properties.

  Available properties:

  • app_name - name attribute. The name of the site to add this app to
  • path -The virtual path for this application
  • application_pool - The pool this application belongs to
  • physical_path - The physical path where this app resides.
  • enabled_protocols - The enabled protocols that this app provides (http, https, net.pipe, net.tcp, etc)

  Minimum required example: "{"action":"add","application_pool":"test-pool"}