I have configured 3 centos servers for chefworkstation, chefserver and chefclient. Now I want to install nginx using the cookbook. For that I have below script. package ‘nginx’ do action :install end This did not work because there were not enabled epel-release. Is there a way to enable epel repository before running above script? Answer … Read more
I had placed crt key from “Distributor”, and then checked and successed. But “knife cookbook upload” failed. Chef Server Hostname : “Distributor” Cent OS 7 chef-server-core-12.4.1-1.el7.x86_64 Workstation(kitchen) Hostname : “Workstation” Cent OS 7 chefdk-0.11.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm Why certification failed, and what is workaround? [account@Workstation chef-repo]$ knife ssl check Connecting to host Distributor:443 Successfully verified certificates from `Distributor’ … Read more
I’m just starting out with chef, and I’m following http://gettingstartedwithchef.com. One thing it suggests is using knife cookbook site download $COOKBOOK_NAME to get community cookbooks. However sometimes they come with dependencies, and I then have to wait untill Vagrant tells me there’s a problem and then manually download and install the packages one by one. … Read more
Im wondering if its possible with chef (or any other tool like puppet or ansible …) to create cookbooks from current server configurations. For example i have a red hat server with an jboss 7 running on it. Would it be possible to read that server configuration (users, groups, installed services) and the jboss configuration … Read more
I wrote the a Chef cookbook which configures a server in the company. One of the tasks there is to install an “apt_package” called “pssh” and another task is intended to be run after the pssh package installation takes place. In reality, the second task is running before the package installation and then the chef-client … Read more
Previously, I have installed nginx using chef cookbook. Then I did research about firewall rules. For allowing HTTP traffic I have below script. firewall_rule ‘http’ do port 80 protocol :tcp position 1 command :allow end But I am getting error NoMethodError: undefined method `firewall_rule’ for cookbook: firewall, recipe: default :Chef::Recipe How can I resolve this? … Read more
I am having trouble installing sysstat using a chef (v0.9.8) recipe. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated! I have included my chef recipe towards the end. After running this recipe, I am unable to execute /etc/init.d/sysstat start I get an error something like this: * Starting the system activity data collector sadc Usage: … Read more
Obviously, one of the nicest things about Chef is re-using proven components via cookbooks, especially via the wrapper cookbook approach. However, how do you choose the cookbook to wrap? Some examples which have wasted a ton of my time. a cookbook that has a configuration erb with hardcoded obsolete, not just deprecated, flags. The service … Read more
I have setup a Chef server in our network that I use to manage several nodes. These nodes have a chef-client installed executing as a daemon every X minutes. The problem is that every time the client runs, it executes the recipes for all the cookbooks, even those previously executed, so it consumes resources and … Read more
I am creating a Chef recipe that does a couple of things, amongst others a big import of data into a Postgresql database. I am using the Supermarket ‘postgresql’ cookbook which allows me to create a config file via node[‘postgresql’][‘config’] attributes. I would like to update the config in postgresql.conf during my recipe run, namely … Read more
