# Knife-azure 1.1.4.rc.0 Release Candidate available for testing

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**Created:** [November 6, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-azure-1-1-4-rc-0-release-candidate-available-for-testing/4772 "2013-11-06T22:36:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-azure-1-1-4-rc-0-release-candidate-available-for-testing/4772/1 "2013-11-06T22:36:57Z")

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Ohai again Chefs. We also have a knife-azure release candidate today – if  
you’re an Azure user, please take a look at the issues list below for  
changes that might interest you and give them a try, or just give it a  
sanity run in your environment. Please report any issues with a ticket in  
[https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE).

For testing, you’ll need to do the following instead of a gem install  
(details on why at the end of the message):

gem install bundler # if it’s not already installed

git clone [https://github.com/opscode/knife-azure](https://github.com/opscode/knife-azure)

cd knife-azure

bundle install

bundle exec knife azure server create -I  
b39f27a8b8c64d52b05eac6a62ebad85\_\_Ubuntu-13\_04-amd64-server-20130824-en-us-30GB  
–azure-vm-size Medium --ssh-user youruser --identity-file ~/.ssh/your-ssh  
-c path-to-your-knife-config

knife azure server create -I your-windows-sysprepped --azure-vm-size  
Medium –winrm-user youruser --winrm-password ‘yourpassword’

# other knife azure commands, etc.

The list of issues addressed in this knife-azure 1.1.4 release is given  
below:

KNIFE-407 knife azure should assume windows-chef-client-msi for  
–distro parameter

KNIFE-406 knife azure image list should include image location in  
output

KNIFE-405 Knife-azure server create leaks cloud services on  
failure to create vm

KNIFE-404 knife azure server create fails if you specify 5985 for  
–tcp-endpoints

KNIFE-403 Knife-azure should auto-generate the VM name

KNIFE-402 Knife-azure causes gem conflict with nokogiri 1.6

KNIFE-380 Encrypted data bag file configuration not detected when  
bootstrapping Windows server

KNIFE-375 Bug in enhancement to clean up resources when  
provisioning fails.

KNIFE-361 Delete underlying VHD blob image from Azure Storage by  
default when deleting Virtual Machine

KNIFE-360 Add support for adding Virtual Machine to Availability  
Set during provisioning

KNIFE-358 knife-azure tries to bootstrap too quickly

KNIFE-291 Support for Virtual Networks when creating a VM

\*Gem testing note: Due to [https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4696](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4696),  
pre-release knife gems won’t be loaded by recent versions of Chef, hence  
the bundler workaround given above. The ticket lists additional  
workarounds. If your version of Chef is not affected by the bug (Chef  
11.4.0 or earlier), you can test the release candidate through a normal gem  
install since we have published the gem at  
[http://rubygems.org/gems/knife-azure/versions/1.1.4.rc.0](http://rubygems.org/gems/knife-azure/versions/1.1.4.rc.0). CHEF-4696 has a  
fix that’s being tested for a future release of Chef.

Thank you.

-Adam