How do I get my Chef Server to add itself as a node during provisioning?
how you provision chef server?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Greg Barker fletch@fletchowns.net wrote:
How do I get my Chef Server to add itself as a node during provisioning?
Last time I used the aws cli to spin up an EC2 instance that will become my
chef server.
Then I ran a simple little fabric script that does the following:
- Copies encrypted_data_bag_secret, bitbucket deploy key, and known_hosts
file to the instance - yum install git
- Clone down my chef repo from bitbucket
- Runs berks package on my cookbooks, copies it to the instance, and untar
it (I thinkberks packageis run locally, maybe it should be run on the
server?) - Creates a solo.rb file
- Run chef-solo with run list role[mycorp_chef_server], from there it’s
mainly just the chef-server cookbook
I haven’t looked at this script in awhile, maybe there’s a better way to go
about this?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Ranjib Dey dey.ranjib@gmail.com wrote:
how you provision chef server?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Greg Barker fletch@fletchowns.net
wrote:How do I get my Chef Server to add itself as a node during provisioning?
You did the initial setup with Chef solo, which makes sense, because Chef
solo doesn’t require a Chef server, right? Solves the chicken & egg problem
when setting up your Chef server.
Now that it’s set up and presumably working as a Chef server, you need to
start using Chef Client to manage it. Not Chef solo 
Mat
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:01 AM Greg Barker fletch@fletchowns.net wrote:
Last time I used the aws cli to spin up an EC2 instance that will become
my chef server.Then I ran a simple little fabric script that does the following:
- Copies encrypted_data_bag_secret, bitbucket deploy key, and known_hosts
file to the instance- yum install git
- Clone down my chef repo from bitbucket
- Runs berks package on my cookbooks, copies it to the instance, and untar
it (I thinkberks packageis run locally, maybe it should be run on the
server?)- Creates a solo.rb file
- Run chef-solo with run list role[mycorp_chef_server], from there it’s
mainly just the chef-server cookbookI haven’t looked at this script in awhile, maybe there’s a better way to
go about this?On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Ranjib Dey dey.ranjib@gmail.com wrote:
how you provision chef server?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Greg Barker fletch@fletchowns.net
wrote:How do I get my Chef Server to add itself as a node during provisioning?
So is it simply a matter of adding the chef-client cookbook and setting the
node[“chef-client”][“config”][“chef_server_url”] since knife ec2 server create isn’t doing that for me like it does for my other nodes?
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Mathieu Martin webmat@gmail.com wrote:
You did the initial setup with Chef solo, which makes sense, because Chef
solo doesn’t require a Chef server, right? Solves the chicken & egg problem
when setting up your Chef server.Now that it’s set up and presumably working as a Chef server, you need to
start using Chef Client to manage it. Not Chef soloMat
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:01 AM Greg Barker fletch@fletchowns.net wrote:
Last time I used the aws cli to spin up an EC2 instance that will become
my chef server.Then I ran a simple little fabric script that does the following:
- Copies encrypted_data_bag_secret, bitbucket deploy key, and known_hosts
file to the instance- yum install git
- Clone down my chef repo from bitbucket
- Runs berks package on my cookbooks, copies it to the instance, and
untar it (I thinkberks packageis run locally, maybe it should be run on
the server?)- Creates a solo.rb file
- Run chef-solo with run list role[mycorp_chef_server], from there it’s
mainly just the chef-server cookbookI haven’t looked at this script in awhile, maybe there’s a better way to
go about this?On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Ranjib Dey dey.ranjib@gmail.com wrote:
how you provision chef server?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Greg Barker fletch@fletchowns.net
wrote:How do I get my Chef Server to add itself as a node during provisioning?
You left out “make sure DNS and/or /etc/hosts make a working ‘hostname --fqdn’ setup before running chef-server or chef-client”.
A lot of people leave this out of their setup notes, but it saves a lot of trouble.
Nico Kadel-Garcia
Email: nkadel@gmail.commailto:kadel@gmail.com
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On Jun 11, 2015, at 8:01, “Greg Barker” <fletch@fletchowns.netmailto:fletch@fletchowns.net> wrote:
Last time I used the aws cli to spin up an EC2 instance that will become my chef server.
Then I ran a simple little fabric script that does the following:
- Copies encrypted_data_bag_secret, bitbucket deploy key, and known_hosts file to the instance
- yum install git
- Clone down my chef repo from bitbucket
- Runs berks package on my cookbooks, copies it to the instance, and untar it (I think
berks packageis run locally, maybe it should be run on the server?) - Creates a solo.rb file
- Run chef-solo with run list role[mycorp_chef_server], from there it’s mainly just the chef-server cookbook
I haven’t looked at this script in awhile, maybe there’s a better way to go about this?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Ranjib Dey <dey.ranjib@gmail.commailto:dey.ranjib@gmail.com> wrote:
how you provision chef server?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Greg Barker <fletch@fletchowns.netmailto:fletch@fletchowns.net> wrote:
How do I get my Chef Server to add itself as a node during provisioning?
On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
You left out “make sure DNS and/or /etc/hosts make a working ‘hostname --fqdn’ setup before running chef-server or chef-client”.
A lot of people leave this out of their setup notes, but it saves a lot of trouble.
Nico Kadel-Garcia
Email: nkadel@gmail.com (mailto:kadel@gmail.com)
Sent from iPhone
For chef-client, it’s not strictly necessary. We set the node name of all of our EC2 hosts to the instance id and manage the hostname with Chef using an API-friendly DNS provider. But if you are using the hostname detection for your node names, then yes, you’ll have a bad time if the hostname isn’t set.
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Daniel DeLeo