Non-convergence of cookbook on node

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hello,

I would really appreciate some assistance with this…

I’m trying to get a particular cookbook to run on a Ubuntu node. The node is brand new and the first thing I did just after spinning up an instance in AWS, did a chef-client on the command line (which should identify this node to the Chef server) and then did a chef run -r “recipe[cookbook_name::default]”.

I received the following:-
Starting Chef Client, version 11.14.6
resolving cookbooks for run list: [“cookbook_name::default”]
Synchronizing Cookbooks:

  • chef_handler
  • windows
  • logrotate
  • cron
  • chef-client
  • cookbook_name
    Compiling Cookbooks…
    Converging 0 resources

Running handlers:
Running handlers complete
Chef Client finished, 0/0 resources updated in 3.269889693 seconds

Can you please tell me why the default recipe isn’t being run?

Many thanks

Sent from iCloud

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On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 8:56 AM, ANGELA EBIRIM wrote:

Hello,

I would really appreciate some assistance with this...

I'm trying to get a particular cookbook to run on a Ubuntu node. The node is brand new and the first thing I did just after spinning up an instance in AWS, did a chef-client on the command line (which should identify this node to the Chef server) and then did a chef run -r "recipe[cookbook_name::default]".

I received the following:-
Starting Chef Client, version 11.14.6
resolving cookbooks for run list: ["cookbook_name::default"]
Synchronizing Cookbooks:

  • chef_handler
  • windows
  • logrotate
  • cron
  • chef-client
  • cookbook_name
    Compiling Cookbooks...
    Converging 0 resources

Running handlers:
Running handlers complete
Chef Client finished, 0/0 resources updated in 3.269889693 seconds

Can you please tell me why the default recipe isn't being run?
Only the cookbook_name::default recipe will be run, unless it uses an include_recipe statement to pull in other recipes. Setting dependencies at the cookbook level will make chef pull them in for the chef-client run (as you can see in your logs), but the run list (and include statement) controls which recipes actually get run.

Many thanks

Sent from iCloud

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Daniel DeLeo

3

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for responding.

Yes the default recipe does include teo other recipes from the same cookbook.

I do know that the recipes work because when I do a Chef run with this cookbook on a Vagrant VM, the cookbook executes successfully. I’m attempting to deploy this cookbook to a node in my dev environment.

I’ve checked in the /etc/chef directory and can see the two pem files(i.e validation.pem and client.pem). Is there anywhere else you suggest I might start from to troubleshoot this?
Sent from iCloud

On May 08, 2015, at 09:15 AM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 8:56 AM, ANGELA EBIRIM wrote:
Hello,

I would really appreciate some assistance with this…

I’m trying to get a particular cookbook to run on a Ubuntu node. The node is brand new and the first thing I did just after spinning up an instance in AWS, did a chef-client on the command line (which should identify this node to the Chef server) and then did a chef run -r “recipe[cookbook_name::default]”.

I received the following:-
Starting Chef Client, version 11.14.6
resolving cookbooks for run list: [“cookbook_name::default”]
Synchronizing Cookbooks:

  • chef_handler
  • windows
  • logrotate
  • cron
  • chef-client
  • cookbook_name
    Compiling Cookbooks…
    Converging 0 resources

Running handlers:
Running handlers complete
Chef Client finished, 0/0 resources updated in 3.269889693 seconds

Can you please tell me why the default recipe isn’t being run?
Only the cookbook_name::default recipe will be run, unless it uses an include_recipe statement to pull in other recipes. Setting dependencies at the cookbook level will make chef pull them in for the chef-client run (as you can see in your logs), but the run list (and include statement) controls which recipes actually get run.

Many thanks

Sent from iCloud

–
Daniel DeLeo

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On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 9:29 AM, ANGELA EBIRIM wrote:

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for responding.

Yes the default recipe does include teo other recipes from the same cookbook.

I do know that the recipes work because when I do a Chef run with this cookbook on a Vagrant VM, the cookbook executes successfully. I'm attempting to deploy this cookbook to a node in my dev environment.

I've checked in the /etc/chef directory and can see the two pem files(i.e validation.pem and client.pem). Is there anywhere else you suggest I might start from to troubleshoot this?
Those pem files only affect authentication to the server. If they’re wrong then you get a HTTP 401 for every request, if they’re right, then you don’t

For troubleshooting your problem, you can try running chef with -ldebug to get much more verbose logging of what’s going on. You can also inspect the cookbooks after the run in var/chef/cache/cookbooks.

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Daniel DeLeo

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Did you upload the cookbook to the Chef server, and if yes, is it at the
correct version?

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:29 PM, ANGELA EBIRIM aebirim@icloud.com wrote:

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for responding.

Yes the default recipe does include teo other recipes from the same
cookbook.

I do know that the recipes work because when I do a Chef run with this
cookbook on a Vagrant VM, the cookbook executes successfully. I'm
attempting to deploy this cookbook to a node in my dev environment.

I've checked in the /etc/chef directory and can see the two pem files(i.e
validation.pem and client.pem). Is there anywhere else you suggest I might
start from to troubleshoot this?

Sent from iCloud

On May 08, 2015, at 09:15 AM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 8:56 AM, ANGELA EBIRIM wrote:

Hello,

I would really appreciate some assistance with this...

I'm trying to get a particular cookbook to run on a Ubuntu node. The node
is brand new and the first thing I did just after spinning up an instance
in AWS, did a chef-client on the command line (which should identify this
node to the Chef server) and then did a chef run -r
"recipe[cookbook_name::default]".

I received the following:-

Starting Chef Client, version 11.14.6

resolving cookbooks for run list: ["cookbook_name::default"]

Synchronizing Cookbooks:

  • chef_handler

  • windows

  • logrotate

  • cron

  • chef-client

  • cookbook_name

Compiling Cookbooks...

Converging 0 resources

Running handlers:

Running handlers complete

Chef Client finished, 0/0 resources updated in 3.269889693 seconds

Can you please tell me why the default recipe isn't being run?

Only the cookbook_name::default recipe will be run, unless it uses an
include_recipe statement to pull in other recipes. Setting dependencies
at the cookbook level will make chef pull them in for the chef-client run
(as you can see in your logs), but the run list (and include statement)
controls which recipes actually get run.

Many thanks

Sent from iCloud

--
Daniel DeLeo