# RE: Re: RE: Re: knife vsphere plugin

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-re-re-knife-vsphere-plugin/3187>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [October 14, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-re-re-knife-vsphere-plugin/3187 "2012-10-14T20:48:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Storey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jeff\_Storey](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Jeff_Storey)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-re-re-knife-vsphere-plugin/3187/1 "2012-10-14T20:48:00Z")

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Thanks. Didn't realize the first half came from the knife page. Appreciate the info.

-----Original Message-----  
From: Daniel Condomitti [[mailto:daniel@condomitti.com](mailto:daniel@condomitti.com)]  
Sent: Sun 10/14/2012 4:46 PM  
To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: knife vsphere plugin

The first half of the configuration is from the wiki ([http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Knife](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Knife)) and the vsphere plugin stuff is documented on its github repo ([GitHub - chef/knife-vsphere: Chef knife plug-in for VMware vSphere](https://github.com/ezrapagel/knife-vsphere))

On Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Jeff Storey wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> Thanks. Is this information documented somewhere?
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----  
> From: Daniel Condomitti [[mailto:daniel@condomitti.com](mailto:daniel@condomitti.com)]  
> Sent: Sun 10/14/2012 4:40 PM  
> To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com) ([mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com))  
> Subject: [chef] Re: knife vsphere plugin
> 
> knife.rb either in your chef repository's .chef directory, or ~/.chef. My company-specific file looks something like this:
> 
> current\_dir = File.dirname( **FILE** )  
> log\_level :info  
> log\_location STDOUT  
> node\_name "chefusername"  
> client\_key "#{current\_dir}/chefusername.pem"  
> validation\_client\_name "org-validator"  
> validation\_key "#{current\_dir}/org-validator.pem"  
> chef\_server\_url "[Sign In - Chef Manage](https://api.opscode.com/organizations/orgname)"  
> cookbook\_path ["#{current\_dir}/../cookbooks"]  
> encrypted\_data\_bag\_secret "#{current\_dir}/encrypted\_data\_bag\_secret"
> 
> knife[:sort\_status\_reverse] = true  
> knife[:vsphere\_host] = "[vsphere-hostname.example.com](http://vsphere-hostname.example.com) ([http://vsphere-hostname.example.com](http://vsphere-hostname.example.com))"  
> knife[:vsphere\_user] = "username"  
> knife[:vsphere\_pass] = "dat password"  
> knife[:vsphere\_dc] = "OrgName"  
> knife[:vsphere\_insecure] = false # require valid SSL certificates, use true
> 
> # if using self-signed certificates that aren't
> 
> # trusted in your local cacert.pem
> 
> On Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 4:19 PM, [jeff.storey@nextcentury.com](mailto:jeff.storey@nextcentury.com) ([mailto:jeff.storey@nextcentury.com](mailto:jeff.storey@nextcentury.com)) wrote:
> 
> > I'm starting to look at the vsphere knife plugin for creating VMs and  
> > provisioning them with Chef. One thing that is confusing me is how to specify  
> > the chef server to use, and where to specify the pem validation files. Where  
> > does that get set?
> 
> Attachments:
> 
> - winmail.dat