Cookbooks not created

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1

Preliminary information:

  • using Open Source Chef
  • server and workstation are CentOS 6.4 VMs
  • running the _default environment

I tried to create a new cookbook, but nothing results in the cookbooks
directory.

[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$ sudo knife cookbook create testcook1
** Creating cookbook testcook1
** Creating README for cookbook: testcook1
** Creating CHANGELOG for cookbook: testcook1
** Creating metadata for cookbook: testcook1

The create action produces nothing.

[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$ tree cookbooks/
cookbooks/
`-- README.md

0 directories, 1 file
[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$

I see no indications of errors or warnings anywhere.
I only see INFO messages with 'chef-server-ctl tail’
Pointers please?

-lun

2

"knife cookbook create" is a local operation, so you won't see anything in
your chef-server logs until you actually "knife cookbook upload" that
cookbook.

knife should create the cookbook in the first entry in your knife.rb's
cookbook_path. Have you checked in that directory?

~Adam

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Lunixer lunixer@gmail.com wrote:

Preliminary information:

  • using Open Source Chef
  • server and workstation are CentOS 6.4 VMs
  • running the _default environment

I tried to create a new cookbook, but nothing results in the cookbooks
directory.

[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$ sudo knife cookbook create testcook1
** Creating cookbook testcook1
** Creating README for cookbook: testcook1
** Creating CHANGELOG for cookbook: testcook1
** Creating metadata for cookbook: testcook1

The create action produces nothing.

[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$ tree cookbooks/
cookbooks/
`-- README.md

0 directories, 1 file
[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$

I see no indications of errors or warnings anywhere.
I only see INFO messages with 'chef-server-ctl tail'
Pointers please?

-lun

3

Problem solved.

REFERENCE:

Added cookbook_path to knife.rb.
But upload was erroring out.

[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$ sudo knife cookbook upload testcook1
Uploading testcook1 [0.1.0]
ERROR: Method Not Allowed
Response:

To solve the above error, edited the knife.rb file and replaced http with
https
as suggested in the referenced link above.

[jdoe@chef-work001 ]$ cat /home/jdoe/chef-repo/.chef/knife.rb
log_level :info
log_location STDOUT
node_name 'jdoe'
client_key '/home/jdoe/.chef/jdoe.pem'
validation_client_name 'chef-validator'
validation_key '/home/jdoe/chef-repo/.chef/chef-validator.pem'
chef_server_url 'https://server.example.com'
syntax_check_cache_path '/home/jdoe/.chef/syntax_check_cache'
cookbook_path '/home/jdoe/chef-repo/cookbooks'

The problem was solved.

[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$ sudo knife cookbook upload testcook1
Uploading testcook1 [0.1.0]
Uploaded 1 cookbook.

[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$ sudo knife cookbook list
testcook1 0.1.0

Thanks!
-lun

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Adam Leff adam@leff.co wrote:

"knife cookbook create" is a local operation, so you won't see anything in
your chef-server logs until you actually "knife cookbook upload" that
cookbook.

knife should create the cookbook in the first entry in your knife.rb's
cookbook_path. Have you checked in that directory?

~Adam

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Lunixer lunixer@gmail.com wrote:

Preliminary information:

  • using Open Source Chef
  • server and workstation are CentOS 6.4 VMs
  • running the _default environment

I tried to create a new cookbook, but nothing results in the cookbooks
directory.

[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$ sudo knife cookbook create testcook1
** Creating cookbook testcook1
** Creating README for cookbook: testcook1
** Creating CHANGELOG for cookbook: testcook1
** Creating metadata for cookbook: testcook1

The create action produces nothing.

[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$ tree cookbooks/
cookbooks/
`-- README.md

0 directories, 1 file
[jdoe@chef-work001 chef-repo]$

I see no indications of errors or warnings anywhere.
I only see INFO messages with 'chef-server-ctl tail'
Pointers please?

-lun