Re: Please test Chef!

[Joshua Timberman <joshua@opscode.com>]

On Apr 26, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Adam Jacob wrote:

> We let the 0.6.0 release get a little long in the tooth, but it's
> nearly ready to roll.  We've got the new Web UI work, lots of bug
> fixes, and some performance patches.  Everything should be pretty
> smooth, but I would love to get a few "yep, nothing is totally hoarked
> for me" replies.  Mind testing out chef from opscode/master, and
> letting me know if things are working well for you?

With my existing test environment using Chef 0.5.7, I had to do a  
little extra work to get chef-server to jive with our latest passenger- 
ified chef-server.

I reran the chef-solo bootstrap with the tarball on S3, because the  
installation wipes out the config.ru, init.rb, etc from the chef  
cookbook. This should be expected on 0.6.0 release as well, as the  
directory won't exist. It's probably a good idea to use the config.ru,  
init.rb and production.rb from the bootstrap recipe since thats the  
primary 'default' configuration from following the Chef Wiki's  
Installation page.

I also had to restart Apache2 after running the chef-solo with the  
bootstrap recipes for it to properly pick up the changes.

When writing the doc for converting chef-server via runit to  
passenger[1], I did test 0.5.6 to 0.5.7-as-of-Friday, and the process  
was quite straightforward actually, considering the complete  
deployment change, as well as the broad changes that 0.6.0 brings.

Also, on a fresh new system, I had to run 'rake install' via sudo to  
get it to create /var/chef, due to Merb.load_dependencies on line 30  
of the chef-server Rakefile. I can open a bug.

To wit, I did install 0.5.7 on a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 VM using the  
"installing from HEAD" instructions as posted on the wiki and  
everything worked as documented.

[1] 
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/How+to+Convert+chef-server+from+runit+to+Passenger

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