Bootstrap issues

Chef Infra (archive)
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I receive the following error when trying to bootstrap:

WARNING: 'knife bootstrap windows' specified, but the knife-windows plugin is not installed. Please install 'knife-windows' if you are attempting to bootstrap a Windows node via WinRM.

When I install knife-windows:

C:\Users[USERNAME]_github\chef> chef gem install knife-windows

+---------------------------------------------+

        Chef License Acceptance

Before you can continue, 3 product licenses

must be accepted. View the license at

Licenses that need accepting:

  • Chef Workstation

  • Chef Infra Client

  • Chef InSpec

Do you accept the 3 product licenses (yes/no)?

yes

Persisting 3 product licenses...

:heavy_check_mark: 3 product licenses persisted.

+---------------------------------------------+

Fetching knife-windows-3.0.17.gem

WARNING: You don't have c:\users[USERNAME]\appdata\local\chefdk\gem\ruby\2.6.0\bin in your PATH,

      gem executables will not run.

Successfully installed knife-windows-3.0.17

Parsing documentation for knife-windows-3.0.17

Installing ri documentation for knife-windows-3.0.17

Done installing documentation for knife-windows after 3 seconds

1 gem installed

Notice that it says:

WARNING: You don't have c:\users[USERNAME]\appdata\local\chefdk\gem\ruby\2.6.0\bin in your PATH,

      gem executables will not run.

When I go to look for this location it does not exist:

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@hunt

You shouldn't need to install knife-windows into modern versions of ChefDK or Workstation. You should probably try installing Chef Workstation first and bootstrapping from that since it includes everything you need out the box.

-Tim

4

Another question is do you have to use the PowerShell tool when you have Chef Workstation installed? Can you still use CMD?

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  1. Its funny you say that cause thats what we have installed is CHEF workstation:

C:\Users[USERNAME]_github\chef>chef -v

Chef Workstation version: 0.13.35

Chef Infra Client version: 15.6.10

Chef InSpec version: 4.18.39

Chef CLI version: 2.0.0

Test Kitchen version: 2.3.4

Cookstyle version: 5.16.11

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It looks like you might have some gremlins in that install. It's also an older release. Try uninstalling Workstation first, then remove the install directory entirely as well as c:\users[USERNAME]\appdata\local\chefdk. After that :crossed_fingers: you should be good to go.

-Tim

7

I will try this.

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Has the syntax for bootstrapping changed for CHEF workstation?