Questions tagged [chef-solo]
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chef-solo binary removed after chef upgrade, returns on reinstall
I'm setting up a server configuration for ubuntu trusty that must be compatible with our node configuration using chef-solo.
This is in AWS EC2, and the base node is from the official ubuntu repo in ...
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Chef deploy not working on Ubuntu 14.04 looking for credentials
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 chef-solo stack but since today when I am running the deploy script its giving me below error. Please assist.
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ubuntu@i-production-base:~$ sudo /var/chef/scripts/...
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Interpolation in PHP for chef automation
Hi I am using chef for deployment automation of a wordpress site where in I need to read database, host, username and password from my shared.yml for wp-config.php so I am trying below code in my ...
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Chef recipe gives error as undefined method 'split'
Hi I am using below in code in my chef recipe and it works fine with all the other existing servers however it doesn't work well with my new server.
user_array = node
node['user']['...
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chef recipe: fix flow of installation of packages
I am using chef for provisioning a vpn-server in my infrastructure. Below is the code which is used to install few components of libreswan-ipsec vpn.
%w( libnss3-dev libnspr4-dev pkg-config libpam0g-...
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How to solve the cookbook naming mismatch between berks and chef-solo?
Follow-up to this answer.
Running chef solo:
sudo chef-solo -c config.rb -j config.json
Starting Chef Client, version 12.16.42
resolving cookbooks for run list: ["terraform"]
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How to run a chef cookbook?
It is possible to install software using Ansible and Puppet by downloading a role from galaxy or puppetforge and run it masterless.
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The aim is to install MongoDB using chef masterless. I just ...
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Rerunning chef after setting PermitRootLogin no
I am configuring my first server at Linode using knife-solo. Everything is working fine but I've just added a step by which I am disabling root login for extra security. My understanding is that ...
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Chef dynamic inventory like Ansible?
In Ansible, I can use a shell script to provide a list of hosts to be configured, in Chef, I knew Chef Server provide the similar features.
However, I don't want to install a heavy server to provide ...
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Configure management tool to auto-configure by reading config file
The use-case is as given below:
The user has a Flat File in his Linux system. This file is a human readable/editable file which contains the configurations for all the needed components of his ...
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How do I run chef recipe from inside ruby code?
From the Rails app I need to provision, configure and manage servers on Amazon AWS. Some time ago I've been using chef-solo and knife to do that, but from the command line. Would that be possible to ...
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How do I set up omnibus builder environment on vagrant centos box using chef?
I need an omnibus builder box for building a python cli package.
I would like to use this cookbook, on this vagrantbox
I am running this as root since the omnibus installer needs to check something ...
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Chef recipe not working
I am working on chef and vagrant. I am trying to configure nginx with php-fpm and spin-up new server using chef-solo. Here is the configuration of my vagrant file.
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
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Monit Web Service not available
I'm trying to configure monit on my server using chef solo. When I visit port 2812 response saying this webpage is not availble.
config/chef/files/default/monitrc
set daemon 30
set pidfile /var/run/...
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AWS Cloudformation OpsWorks Custom Recipe SSH Key
Is there a method to pass a SSH Key through to a Cloudformation script for custom recipes repo when configuring an Amazon Web Services OpsWorks stack besides mangling the newline characters and ...
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