http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10825 <pre>Ohai all, This is a simple question, we have many many nodes with various names and we make the node name match the FQDN with a pretty standard naming convention. However when logged in on a machine it is very very useful to know what's its Chef state. Currently multiple possibilities: * Use the motd cookbook that will give you some last run static info when you login * Use a command like knife node show $(hostname -f) -c /etc/chef/client.rb -u $(hostname -f) I like the command (because it's very flexible) but I'd expect it to be simpler, I know i can do a simple alias, deploy a simple script on my nodes or anything, but this has to be something that other people need right ? So if we go the knife way, here are my suggestions: * Why not make knife look for a client.rb file in /etc/chef/client.rb if no configuration is available? * Why do i have to specify the node_name conf through -u option? it should be default if none available * Why not make knife node show without arguments show the current node if</pre> Maxime Brugidou 2013-06-19T07:28:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10823 <pre>Heyas, we have a setup where we develop cookbooks in a branch in git, test them in a local vagrant box. After that we push them to staging branch in git and then to prod and release it. Then its released to staging and prod at the same time, i want an additional testingstep on the staging branch before the pull request to prod. Any tips how to start? Have tought about using chef_solo on all staging machines and have them pull from development branch when run, but i want chef solo to run every 30 mins like the chef client. Or does anyone have any better suggestions? We dont want to use environments since we havnt found a good way to automate the process of bumping versions in the prod environment when releasing cookbooks to prod. Jens Skott Tel: +46-8-5142 4396 *Schibsted Centralen IT* </pre> Jens Skott 2013-06-19T05:02:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10821 <pre>I'm looking at chef-client on master and AFAICS the tests introduced by CHEF-3104 completely break the existing tests which were there for CHEF-2169? Am I just missing something? I really can't see how the test suite could possibly have passed! -- Alex Kiernan </pre> Alex Kiernan 2013-06-19T04:48:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10820 <pre>Hi, We have recently started looking at using Chef and I just wanted to get some community advice around the correct 'Chef' way to copy files.. In particular, we want to be able to 'pre-load' some larger files (jar files, some other archive types, etc) into the Chef file cache so they are already present when our image is booted, which then need to be moved/copied out to the correct location. This is mostly to speed up initial Chef runs so we don't need to wait for the files to download over a slow link. We currently use the remote_file resource for this, but either we specify the correct location in which case it ignores the file that already exists in our cache path (and re-downloads slowly), or we specify the cache location and then use a bash block afterwards to move or copy the file to it's final location which doesn't seem very 'elegant'.. Is there a better way ? Regards, Michael Ward. </pre> Michael Ward 2013-06-19T03:49:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10811 <pre> i'm looking to download a chef-server (omnibus) installer from http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/ for ubuntu. I only see 11.x pkgs in the drop-down menu. where can i get 10.x omnibus pkg? or, can i? thanks, kallen </pre> kallen< at >groknaut.net 2013-06-18T22:39:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10810 <pre>Hi, I am planning to run Chef-server and other services into a single node that use nginx, postgres and rabbitmq. I plan to bootstrap this node with chef-solo with a runlist like: * recipe[nginx] * recipe[postgres] * recipe[rabbitmq] * recipe[whatever::customize_chef-server_rb] * recipe[omnibus_updater] Is that a good approach/best practice? Is there another suggestion? Thanks, </pre> Jordi Llonch 2013-06-18T22:23:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10807 <pre>Hey All, I just released the beta version of vagrant-chef-zero. The goal is to wrap Chef-Zero around Vagrant runs in an automated, repeatable fashion, while supporting all of the artifacts that a Chef Server can normally hold. https://github.com/andrewgross/vagrant-chef-zero Check out the README for instructions and explanations of some of the current capabilities. Feel free to submit bugs and feature requests to the Github Issues page. Just remember, this is still in beta. So while the public API should be pretty stable, it could still change, so hold off on deploying this site wide until we get some feedback. Andrew </pre> Andrew Gross 2013-06-18T21:10:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10792 <pre>I am having an issue with encrypted data bags with chef 11.4.4 and vagrant 1.2.2. I was able to successfully create, show encrypted and decrypted data bags with no issue via knife. But once I dropped it into a recipe it threw me an error. Here is the portion of the recipe that does not error. secret = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load_secret("#{node[:production][:secretpath]}") - This spits back the contents of the /etc/chef/encrypted_data_bag_secret When I add the below it throws an error pass_keys = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load("production", "passwords", secret) &lt;error&gt; [2013-06-18T18:43:48+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ValidationFailed: Data Bag Items must contain a Hash or Mash! &lt;/error&gt; Not sure why I am getting this issue. Any help would be good. Thanks! </pre> Russ Lavoy 2013-06-18T19:44:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10788 <pre>Hey guys, I'm not up-to-date with the latest test-kitchen development - can I run Cucumber features for testing from the outside with test-kitchen? If not, what else are you using for this kind of testing? Cheers, Torben </pre> Torben Knerr 2013-06-18T19:34:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10784 <pre>Hey Chefs! Chef master has recently received a major merge of knife-essentials commands (knife diff / download / upload / list / show / delete / edit / xargs / deps / raw) which will make their way into 11.6.0. The highlights include: * Vastly improved performance for download/upload/diff * Can view all data by default (inc. nodes, clients, etc.) * New knife deps, knife edit and knife xargs commands * Better UI, better error reporting, and stability * An rspec framework to easily test knife commands using chef-zero Full notes can be found at https://gist.github.com/jkeiser/5761426 . If you'd like to use these right now, you can get all of these changes early by installing knife-essentials (gem install knife-essentials). Please file issues at https://github.com/jkeiser/knife-essentials if you see anything that doesn't do what you want :) (The knife serve and knife converge commands are not part of this merge; you still need to gem install knife-essentials to get them.) --John </pre> John Keiser 2013-06-18T16:31:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10775 <pre>After an otherwise apparently successful installation of package chef-server_11.0.8-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb and after running # chef-server-ctl reconfigure followed by # chef-server-ctl test # chef-server-ctl status --all seemingly good and happy, why can I not find this /chef-server.rb /on my Chef server host per http://docs.opscode.com/config_rb_chef_server.html? Much thanks to any response. Russ Bateman </pre> Russell Bateman 2013-06-17T20:18:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10766 <pre> Dear all, looks fine with the installation and the coockbooks but on my tests something is going wrong.I've tried to install mozilla firefox just for testing and i'm receiving the following error on my windows server during the installation: before re c:/chef/cache/fail c:/chef/cache/chef-stack package[update-notifier-common `version' I'm trying to install Mozilla on a Windows Server 2003 R2 My Chef Server is on Ubuntu Server 10.4 On my Chef Server i'm receiving no errors --</pre> nzagoreos< at >newsphone.gr 2013-06-17T10:20:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10760 <pre>Hello all, The reason I am writing to you today is because I have a small collection of 4 hosts meant to report in to a chef server for updates. 2 of the hosts are Ubuntu 12.04 and two are Centos 5.9. The two Ubuntu hosts (one of which is the chef server itself) are checking in to the chef server. But the two centos hosts are not. Chef client is at Chef 10.18.2 on one ubuntu machine and at Chef 11.4.0 on the chef server. Chef client is at Chef 11.4.4 on both centos machines. I see when I run the chef-client manually on one of the centos hosts I get the following output: On the failed nodes I see this output in the run: [2013-06-15T14:43:54-04:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.4.4 *** [2013-06-15T14:43:55-04:00] INFO: Run List is [role[base]] [2013-06-15T14:43:55-04:00] INFO: Run List expands to [apt, nagios::client] [2013-06-15T14:43:55-04:00] INFO: HTTP Request Returned 404 Not Found: No routes match the request: /reports/nodes/cloud.jokefire.com/runs [2013-06-15T14:43:55-04:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for cl</pre> Tim Dunphy 2013-06-15T18:57:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10750 <pre>Hi chefs, Is it possible to run a chef run on only part of the run list ? Here is more about my situation : We have a bunch of servers managed by chef. Some of these are used as a staging environment and developers would like to be able to run a specific cookbook really quickly while a complete chef run can take a few minutes. Is there a way to achieve something like that ? </pre> Dorian Jaminais 2013-06-14T14:31:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10746 <pre>Hi, I seem to have a problem with the embedded ruby when running on windows. It looks like the cacert.pem file is not located correctly: C:\&gt;irb irb(main):001:0&gt; require 'open-uri' =&gt; true irb(main):002:0&gt; open "https://google.com" OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed from C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:799:in `connect' Not sure if this is expected or not. Setting SSL_CERT_FILE solves the issue. There seems to be at least two ca-bundle.pem files in the embedded ruby, but not sure if they are supposed to be located automagically? /Jeppe </pre> Jeppe Nejsum Madsen 2013-06-14T07:44:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10739 <pre>Ohai Chefs, We've been looking at implementing a Berkshelf based workflow within my org and we've hit some challenges managing dependent cookbook version constraints. Basically, we'd like to bind the dependent cookbook version constraint in the app cookbook's metadata and use chef_api in the Berkshelf file to point to our chef server. For example: Cookbook 'Foo App' metadata.rb contains: depends 'bar', '1.0.0' Berksfile contains: metadata chef_api :config site :opscode cookbook 'bar' However, the version constraint in the metadata file is not observed; berks just fetches the latest version of the 'bar' cookbook on our chef server. Is there any way to force Berkshelf to respect the version constraint in metadata? Am I missing something here? Maybe I'm not approaching this the right way but any insight/feedback would be greatly appreciated. $ berks --version Berkshelf (2.0.3) Thanks! -K. -- Kevin Karwaski Operations Engineer &lt; at &gt; {Fiksu} </pre> Kevin Karwaski 2013-06-13T21:25:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10725 <pre>Hi Folks, I want to use GIT repository path to be configured in knife.rb file. What is the syntax for it ? Basically, I want the cookbooks residing on GIT server to be called whenever I run chef-client, and not the default cookbook path. Any pointers ? Thank you, </pre> Ashutosh Narayan 2013-06-13T13:34:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10724 <pre>Hi, Trying to create a directory containing files from a cookbook using the following: remote_directory root_path do source 'AppRoot' rights :full_control, 'NETWORK SERVICE', :applies_to_children =&gt; true recursive true end The directory &amp; files are created ok, and security is set on the directory. But the files do not get the required permissions...no mention of NETWORK SERVICE for the files. Any clues? /Jeppe </pre> Jeppe Nejsum Madsen 2013-06-13T12:37:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10717 <pre>Hello all. I am using Vagrant with chef and berkshelf (A killer combo!) and have run into some problems with the yum cookbook. I have a "base" cookbook which installs a whole range of basic linux utilities and software. It depends on the latest yum cookbook and includes yum::yum and yum::epel. This works without trouble. After that I have other cookbooks which depends on the "base" cookbook and then add more specific software depending on what the server is going to be doing, I believe this is commonly referred to as a "wrapper" cookbook. The first line of the recipes/default.rb file in this wrapper cookbook is: include_recipe "base::default". Now when I run the base cookbook on its own the provisioning works without trouble. However when I run the wrapper cookbook the epel installation appears to fail with the following: https://gist.github.com/rurounijones/5771208 It appears that it is not finding the epel key etc etc. but I cannot understand why. I don't suppose anyone could enlighten me</pre> Jeffrey Jones 2013-06-13T04:22:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10716 <pre>Hi Chefs, I am trying to debug a seemingly normal and correct call to create a new database and db user: mysql_database "install reviewdb" do connection mysql_info database_name db_name action :create end mysql_database_user db_username do connection mysql_info password db_password database_name db_name host db_address action [:create, :grant] end I've validated all of the mysql_info credentials are correct, but this code never seems to get run. Or at least, I can see no record of it running. The database and the user never get created, and when I run chef-client -ldebug, I see no log output at all from the database cookbook. Can someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong or how I can see what the database cookbook LWRPs are actually doing in the chef-client log output? Thanks much! -jay </pre> Jay Pipes 2013-06-13T04:04:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/10714 <pre> Recently the node output I see went from a nice "fully-expanded" view of the json to the json being not expanded, being "squished"... for lack of better phrasing. Does anyone happen to know what happened, or how to get the output back to fully-expanded? $ knife node show db01.stg.cherryporkleftovers.com -Fj -l { "name": "db01.stg.cherryporkleftovers.com", "chef_environment": "staging1", "run_list": ["role[base]","role[database]"], "normal": {"repo":{"epel":{"key":"RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6"},"percona":{"key":"RPM-GPG-KEY-percona"},"centos":{"key":"RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5",..snip-the-squish "default": {"s3cmd":{"users":["root"],"userlist":["foo","baz"]},"boundary":{"bprobe":..snip-the-squish snip I'm not exactly sure what changed in my dev environment, and when it did. FWIW I did try downgrading my chef 10.26.0 to 10.24.0 within my rvm, but that changed nothing. 06/12 17:34[zahadum chefdev]$ which ruby /home/kallen/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/ruby 06/12 18:33[zahadum chefdev]$ gem list chef *** L</pre> kallen< at >groknaut.net 2013-06-13T01:35:41 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user