hai. i’m failing to feed a run_list present in ec2 userdata to a
first-boot.json file. what am i doing wrong? maybe run_list shouldn’t
be within attributes? (see userdata below).
i’m using a client.rb based on jtimberman’s gist. my modification
is here: https://gist.github.com/1648988
my knife ec2 launch command:
knife ec2 server create -N “testme” -S sshkey -f m1.large -I
ami-xxx -G sg-xxx,sg-xxx --user-data /tmp/userdata --distro distroX
distroX
bash -c ‘
S3CFG="–config=/root/.s3cfg-w-https"
S3CMDOPT="–force $S3CFG"
X_ENV=dev
X_AV_REGION=us-east-1
S3_BUCKET="x-ops-$X_ENV-$X_AV_REGION"
s3cmd get $S3CMDOPT s3://$S3_BUCKET/chef/client.frak.rb /etc/chef/client.rb
/usr/bin/chef-client -j /etc/chef/first-boot.json -l debug -L /var/log/chef/client.log
’
and the output from the launch:
Waiting for sshd…done
Bootstrapping Chef on ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com s3://x-ops-dev-east-1/chef/client.frak.rb -> /etc/chef/client.rb [1 of 1]
1502 of 1502 100% in 0s 10.31 kB/s done
ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com FATAL: I cannot find /etc/chef/first-boot.json
root@ip-10-190-xx-xx:/etc/chef# curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data
{
“validation_key”: “-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIxx_snip\n”,
“attributes”: {
“role”: “chefsrv”,
“node_name_override”: “testme”,
“env”: “dev”,
“cluster”: “dev”,
“vol_list”: [
“vol-f1xxxx”,
“vol-p3xxxx”
],
“run_list”: [
“role[base]”,
“role[postfix-client]”,
“role[syslog-ng-client]”
]
},
“chef_server”: “https://10.xx.xx.113”,
“validation_client_name”: “chef-validator”
}
i tried another test of this by placing run_list at the same level as
attributes in the userdata.
Waiting for sshd…done
Bootstrapping Chef on ec2-50-yy-yy-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-50-yy-yy-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com s3://x-ops-dev-us-east-1/chef/client.frak.rb -> /etc/chef/client.rb [1 of 1]
1507 of 1507 100% in 0s 10.35 kB/s done
ec2-50-yy-yy-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/client.rb:313:in converge': undefined methodrun_list’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
ec2-50-yy-yy-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/client.rb:87:in run' ec2-50-yy-yy-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:215:inrun_application’
ec2-50-yy-yy-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:207:in loop' ec2-50-yy-yy-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application/client.rb:207:inrun_application’
ec2-50-yy-yy-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chef/application.rb:62:in `run’
ec2-50-yy-yy-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com from /usr/bin/chef-client:25
root@domU-12-31-39-0E-E4-xx:/etc/chef# cat first-boot.json
[
“role[base]”,
“role[postfix-client]”,
“role[syslog-ng-client]”
]root@domU-12-31-39-0E-E4-xx:/etc/chef#
also, within this block (from client.rb), what does “json_attribs” do?
if chef_config.has_key?(“run_list”)
File.open("/etc/chef/first-boot.json", “w”) do |f|
f.print(JSON.pretty_generate(chef_config[“run_list”]))
end
json_attribs "/etc/chef/first-boot.json"
end
thanks!
kallen