I have installed sensu with chef community cookbook. However, sensu client fails to connect to server. Results in rabbitmq connection error with message timed out while attempting to connect Here ...

Below my code for installing vcider. I am learning chef but have not seen anything for installing a dpkg. I would like to use version in the script. The code below works. script "install_vcide...

knife node show my_chef_node will give you information like the recipes, roles, etc. but ideally what I want is to be able to see the version of those cookbook recipes as well. knife search node ...

Usage case: The DevOps team launched a node sometime ago, and my team would like to know what's the version(s) of one/several cookbook(s) being used in the run_list. Our DevOps team is firefightin...

I want to include_recipe only_if some condition is met. The following code doesn't raise any error but it doesn't care about the only_if condition either, so gets executed in any cases: include_re...

When deploying an application with Chef, I've got the code base set to be cloned from a private github repository with the following resource: git '/mnt/application' do repository '[email pr...

I don't know what is wrong with my settting: siegfried@ubuntu:~/chef-repo$ knife ssh -a ipaddress 'name:chefnode' 'uptime' WARNING: Failed to connect to -- Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed: Authen...

The use case is fairly straightforward. I am dockerizing our local provisioning (which utilizes chef to configure our ubuntu servers). I am using a few data volumes to share host directories that I...

I'm trying to understand the concept of Chef clients and validators, and their relationship to the bootstrapping process. According to this article, the chef-client will use the /etc/chef/validati...

I am having 2 cookbooks name as mycookbook and version 0.1.0 and 0.1.1 on chef server. Now I want to run only cookbook mycookbook version 0.1.1 using chef-client. How do I do this ?

I have been experimenting with open source chef server. I configured a node on my server which had ip address 10.114.7.41. Now when I restarted the node machine and now the ip address of the machin...

I'm using a Chef hosted server, a workstation and nodes and have run cookbooks on the nodes to install Java, update hosts file. I'm not able to find a reference in sites to unzip tar files. Could y...

I am modifying /etc/security/limits.conf on the machine, and then installing Supervisor in a Chef recipe. After the recipe run finishes, if I run cat /proc/<process id>/limits I see: Limit S...

I'm using terraform and chef to create multiple aws ebs volumes and attach them to an EC2 instance. The problem is I want to be able to give each ebs volume a specific windows drive letter. The p...

I'm generating a config for my service in chef attributes. However, at some point, I need to turn the attribute mash into a simple ruby hash. This used to work fine in Chef 10: node.myapp.config.t...

How would you make an erb template that has human readable json? The following code works, but it makes a flat json file default.rb default['foo']['bar'] = { :herp => 'true', :derp => 42...

I am extremely new to chef and I am attempting to create a chef server running on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu 14.04 droplet. I am using this guide for the install. I download the .deb and installed it f...

I am trying to cluster rabbit using chef Here is my error. I shutdown all of rabbit on the second node. rabbitmqctl join_cluster --ram rabbit@ip-10-158-xxx-xxx Error: mnesia_unexpectedly_runnin...

Intro I am learning Chef to automate the server management at work. I downloaded chefdk 3.0 from here and now I am trying to build my first cookbook using chef. Important I am using this in a Wind...

Greeting everyone, I've recently started messing with Ansible (in particular Ansible Tower). I ran into an issue using secure values in my playbook, more accurate, I didn't understand how to use it...

I have 7 files and 1 war. I need to change values when I deploy them. I have this: ##usuario #alfresco.user=***** alfresco.user=******** ##pass #alfresco.password= sfsfs alfresco.password=sfgsf ...

I am trying to implement a wrapper cookbook by taking inspiration from How to Write Reusable Chef Cookbooks, Gangnam Style. I wish to install tomcat 7 on my node without manager app. I have created...

I'm using the opscode nginx cookbook for configuring the nginx server on my nodes. The nginx cookbook has some default attributes I'd like to override in my role ("web_server"). These are the attr...

Being relatively new to Chef, I am required to create libraries or definitions from existing recipes. There recipes use bash resource, ruby block resource (which notifies another ruby block resour...

I have the following (simplified) recipe called java, to install Java of course. File recipes/default.rb include_recipe "install_java" File recipes/install_java.rb # Install RPM from yum repo ...