I would appreciate any suggestions for troubleshooting my failed
Chef server bootstrap process.
I installed chef-solo by running the Omnibus installer script,
then, as described on the Installing Chef Server using Chef Solo
page, I ran chef-solo with a JSON attributes file referencing
the rubygems-install recipe of the chef-server cookbook. I'm using
version 1.1.1 of that cookbook.
Expected process to exit with [0], but received '2'
---- Begin output of /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install chef-server-api -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "11.0.0" ----
STDOUT:
STDERR: ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'chef-server-api' (= 11.0.0) in any repository
ERROR: Possible alternatives: chef-server-api
---- End output of /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install chef-server-api -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "11.0.0" ----
Ran /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install chef-server-api -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "11.0.0" returned 2
Resource Declaration:
In /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/chef-server/recipes/rubygems-install.rb
83: gem_package gem do
84: version node['chef_packages']['chef']['version']
85: end
86: end
Compiled Resource:
Declared in /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/chef-server/recipes/rubygems-install.rb:83:in `block in from_file'
gem_package("chef-server-api") do
provider Chef::Provider::Rubygems
action :install
retries 0
retry_delay 2
package_name "chef-server-api"
version "11.0.0"
cookbook_name :"chef-server"
recipe_name "rubygems-install"
gem_binary "/opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem"
end
We haven't released to the community site the chef-server cookbook version for chef 11.
You can get it from the GitHub repository. We will release the new version (2.0.0) later today.
Cheers!
--
Joshua Timberman
On Monday, February 4, 2013 at 15:59, Phil Mocek wrote:
I would appreciate any suggestions for troubleshooting my failed
Chef server bootstrap process.
I installed chef-solo by running the Omnibus installer script,
then, as described on the Installing Chef Server using Chef Solo
page, I ran chef-solo with a JSON attributes file referencing
the rubygems-install recipe of the chef-server cookbook. I'm using
version 1.1.1 of that cookbook.
Expected process to exit with [0], but received '2'
---- Begin output of /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install chef-server-api -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "11.0.0" ----
STDOUT:
STDERR: ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'chef-server-api' (= 11.0.0) in any repository
ERROR: Possible alternatives: chef-server-api
---- End output of /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install chef-server-api -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "11.0.0" ----
Ran /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install chef-server-api -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "11.0.0" returned 2
Resource Declaration:
In /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/chef-server/recipes/rubygems-install.rb
83: gem_package gem do
84: version node['chef_packages']['chef']['version']
85: end
86: end
Compiled Resource:
Declared in /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/chef-server/recipes/rubygems-install.rb:83:in `block in from_file'
gem_package("chef-server-api") do
provider Chef::Provider::Rubygems
action :install
retries 0
retry_delay 2
package_name "chef-server-api"
version "11.0.0"
cookbook_name :"chef-server"
recipe_name "rubygems-install"
gem_binary "/opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem"
end
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:13:37PM -0700, Joshua Timberman wrote:
We haven't released to the community site the chef-server
cookbook version for chef 11.
You can get it from the GitHub repository. We will release the
new version (2.0.0) later today.Â
Thanks for the tip.
Unfortunately, it seems the problem is that http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz still
contains the obsolete cookbook. I put a copy of chef-server
cookbook 2.0.0 in the location where chef-solo is configured to
expect cookbooks:
Is there a more reliable method of bootstrapping a Chef server?
Alternatively, what would I need to modify in order to install a
version of Chef server that is compatible with the chef-server
cookbook in the bootstrap-latest archive?
If you pass the '-r' remote cookbook URL flag to chef-solo it will
download the bootstrap-latest.tar.gz and extract it to the cookbook
path, effectively clobbering your work of deploying a copy of the Git
cookbook; reverting you back to 1.1.1.
This will not work.
You need to use the chef-server v2.0.0 cookbook to deploy erchef11.
The opscode chef-server v2.0.0 cookbook has been very reliable in all
of my testing across all of the platforms we have under management.
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:13:37PM -0700, Joshua Timberman wrote:
We haven't released to the community site the chef-server
cookbook version for chef 11.
You can get it from the GitHub repository. We will release the
new version (2.0.0) later today.
Thanks for the tip.
Unfortunately, it seems the problem is that http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz still
contains the obsolete cookbook. I put a copy of chef-server
cookbook 2.0.0 in the location where chef-solo is configured to
expect cookbooks:
Is there a more reliable method of bootstrapping a Chef server?
Alternatively, what would I need to modify in order to install a
version of Chef server that is compatible with the chef-server
cookbook in the bootstrap-latest archive?
Unfortunately, it seems the problem is that http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz still
contains the obsolete cookbook. I put a copy of chef-server
cookbook 2.0.0 in the location where chef-solo is configured to
expect cookbooks:
Is there a more reliable method of bootstrapping a Chef server?
Alternatively, what would I need to modify in order to install a
version of Chef server that is compatible with the chef-server
cookbook in the bootstrap-latest archive?
I'm sorry I wasn't clearer earlier, I was using a mobile device to reply.
It was perhaps too terse.
You actually just need to retrieve the correct package for your platform:
From the "Chef Server" tab.
Then, install the package on the system, and when it's done, run:
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure
You can optionally run this to perform all the tests in the "pedant" test
suite.
sudo chef-server-ctl test
Again: I'm following [directions on the Opscode wiki][1]. I
don't see any server installation documentation on the [docs
site][2].
Yeah, the installation pages in the wiki aren't yet updated for Chef 11.
I'm sorry it isn't obvious how to go about installing Chef 11 server.
We're working on getting that updated.
Unfortunately, it seems the problem is that http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz still
contains the obsolete cookbook. I put a copy of chef-server
cookbook 2.0.0 in the location where chef-solo is configured to
expect cookbooks:
Is there a more reliable method of bootstrapping a Chef server?
Alternatively, what would I need to modify in order to install a
version of Chef server that is compatible with the chef-server
cookbook in the bootstrap-latest archive?
I'm sorry I wasn't clearer earlier, I was using a mobile device to reply.
It was perhaps too terse.
You actually just need to retrieve the correct package for your platform:
Then, install the package on the system, and when it's done, run:
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure
You can optionally run this to perform all the tests in the "pedant" test
suite.
sudo chef-server-ctl test
Again: I'm following [directions on the Opscode wiki][1]. I
don't see any server installation documentation on the [docs
site][2].
Yeah, the installation pages in the wiki aren't yet updated for Chef 11.
I'm sorry it isn't obvious how to go about installing Chef 11 server.
We're working on getting that updated.
is there an analogue for chef-server?
No. Since the server install is usually less frequent, we chose not to have an installer script to maintain. Also, we wanted to funnel new users through the https://www.opscode.com/chef/install page so we can link to docs, troubleshooting tips, etc. If you're standing up a lot of Chef servers, you can either use the Omnitruck GET API or distribute the server package via scp/repo/etc.
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 03:33:36AM +0000, Joshua Timberman wrote:
the installation pages in the wiki aren't yet updated for Chef 11.
I updated the Bootstrap Chef Server section of the
"Installing Chef Server using Chef Solo" page with a warning that
it may be obsolete and a reference to this discussion.
:Rubygems