Re: chef client installation

[Ian Kallen <spidaman.list@gmail.com>]

Ah, new installation method looks cool <jtimberman>. I'll spin up a new 
chef server with it (will need to adapt your procedure for the 
CentOS-on-EC2 and VMware environments I've been dealing with) and, 
provided it doesn't have the problem I had with Apache w/ssl+proxy + 
runit wrt OpenID, I'll close http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-236
-Ian

Joshua Timberman wrote:
> Hello Chris,
>
> First, I apologize for any confusion and inconvenience.
>
> I've updated the "Installing Chef from HEAD" page to reflect changes 
> that 0.5.7 brings.
>
> <http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+from+HEAD>
>
> The bootstrap-0.5.6.tar.gz cookbook bundle doesn't configure clients, 
> just server. Version 32 [1] of the main Installation page describes 
> how to install using the older method. Do note that the 0.5.6 version 
> will start Chef Server as a runit service, and 0.5.7+ will run Chef 
> Server as a Rack app under Passenger+Apache. Also, we have a page that 
> describes how to switch from a runit-based chef-server to Passenger [2].
>
> We think the new procedure is better, as fronting chef-server with 
> Apache+Passenger allows stronger security control.
>
> [1] Version 32 page: 
> <http://wiki.opscode.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1835069>
> [2] 
> <http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/How+to+Convert+chef-server+from+runit+to+Passenger> 
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2009, at 9:09 PM, snacktime wrote:
>
> > Ya 0.5.7 looks like what I should be testing with, as the 
> > installation stuff looks quite a bit more complete.
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Arjuna Christensen 
> > <aj@junglist.gen.nz> wrote:
> > I believe Josh is working through some changes on the wiki for the 
> > upcoming 0.6 release (which can be tested as 0.5.7), so this 
> > information may not necessarily be "in sync".
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > AJ
> >
> >
> >
> > On 26/04/2009, at 2:57 PM, snacktime wrote:
> >
> > Still working on it, but at first glance the chef client installation 
> > as documented on the wiki is not working correctly.  It installs the 
> > server even when specifying chef::client, chef path is not set to 
> > /srv/chef as the default as stated in the readme, and the file mode 
> > in the recipe is a string, chef seems to expect an integer.  The 
> > recipes also assume that all the gem binaries are in /usr/bin.
> >
> > This is version 0.5.6.
> >
> > Chris


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