chef-solo

Provision server with chef-solo as root?

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I’m using knife to bootstrap my VM with vanilla Debian 7.0 installation. In bootstrap stage I’m just setting sources.list, updating & upgrading system, then I install buil-essential, rsync and ruby1.9.1 (with rubygems). As a last step, my bootstrap template install chef as a gem. Bang! my node is in this point bootstrapped and ready to … Read more

Storing extra data in .json role/environment files for external (i.e. non-Chef) applications

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I’m thinking about converting my roles to JSON syntax and storing some extra data in there for an external, non-chef application (specifically Vagrant). My idea is that if I stick to a convention in which each machine only gets a single role, I can have Vagrant iterate through my roles directory and automatically configure a … Read more

Can’t compile nginx::source

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I have downloaded nginx cookbook manually today from http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/nginx and started it with include_recipe nginx::source, using chef-solo 11.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 But I have got an error /nginx/recipes/source.rb line: 28 28>> nginx_url = node[‘nginx’][‘source’][‘url’] || “http://nginx.org/download/nginx-#{node[‘nginx’][‘source’][‘version’]}.tar.gz” and the errors are: ` [2013-05-07T18:54:38+04:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers [2013-05-07T18:54:38+04:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete Chef Client failed. 0 … Read more

Installing nginx via chef Role is not applying my changes

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I wrote a role to use the default nginx cookbook. The role is not applying any of my attributes. It keeps installing nginx 1.2.1. { “name”: “nginx”, “json_class”: “Chef::Role”, “chef_type”: “role”, “override_attributes”: { “nginx”: { “version”: “1.5.13”, “default_site_enabled”: true } }, “run_list”: [ “recipe[nginx]” ] } Any idea why this is? Answer default_site_enabled = true … Read more

Git is not working properly when installing with chef

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I’m provisioning my servers with Chef. For git I’m using the community cookbook and is installing version 1.8.3.1 in Amazon Linux. However after it gets installed I don’t get any output while running git commands as git ls-remote or git clone (also it won’t clone projects). I Googled with no luck. Answer 2014-04-16 @LuisDUrraca provided … Read more

chef remote_file is throwing Encoding::UndefinedConversionError

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I have the following in a chef recipe: remote_file ‘/tmp/zint-2.4.2.zip’ do source ‘https://s3.amazonaws.com/mybucket/zint-2.4.2.zip’ checksum ‘4dc28641ef79957e9d3f0904a5d56472ef1d66f8529e3deda25537d890a6f8f3’ mode ‘0664’ action :create_if_missing end On Ubuntu 14.04 with ruby1.9.1 this is throwing “Encoding::UndefinedConversionError: “\xA2″ from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8” when I run chef-solo on boot. If I run chef-solo manually after start up, the cookbook completes successfully. This seems related … Read more

Getting particular server config from Git in Chef Solo

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I don’t want to use Chef Server as for now, but rather want to leverage Chef Solo. I need to keep configs (attributes and files) of particular servers in a separate Git repo. This is needed to keep cookbooks in an open repo while hiding configs in a private repo. Is there a built-in possibility … Read more