[chef] Re: Re: opensolaris and chef

[Adam Jacob < >]

Also, it's way less a PITA than it used to be - you can now just click
through, basically.

Adam

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Daniel 
DeLeo<
 >
 wrote:
> I'll be using chef some on (regular) Solaris soon, so this is interesting to
> hear.
> If you want to submit improvements to Chef you gotta do the dance as
> described here:
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/opscode/Contributing
> It's a bit of a PITA, but Opscode thinks it's needed to protect everyone
> from patent trolls, and they have lawyers who know more about that stuff
> than I do.
> HTH,
> Dan DeLeo
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Sig Lange 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Here is my first run with chef on opensolaris and the feedback of the
>> installation process and usage
>>
>> # cat /etc/release
>>                          OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111a X86
>>            Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>>                         Use is subject to license terms.
>>                              Assembled 17 April 2009
>>
>>
>> platform is being detected incorrectly (I assume it should be just
>> solaris) I had to symlink
>> some ohai plugins
>>
>> The code uses the output of this command:
>> # /sbin/uname -X
>> System = SunOS
>> Node = xxxx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx
>> Release = 5.11
>> KernelID = snv_111a
>> Machine = i86pc
>> BusType = <unknown>
>> Serial = <unknown>
>> Users = <unknown>
>> OEM# = 0
>> Origin# = 1
>> NumCPU = 1
>>
>> # The hacky fix was this
>> cd /var/ruby/1.8/gem_home/gems/ohai-0.3.2/lib/ohai/plugins
>> ln -s solaris2/ solaris2.11
>>
>>
>> I didn't use bootstrap for chef to setup instead did it manually in bash
>> script since the group and user resources are missing.
>>
>> Then after working with solaris for a bit I realized I needed to write a
>> package provider. I developed Chef::Provider::Package::Opensolaris that 
>> uses
>> IPS.
>> The code was modeled after the gem package manager so some things don't
>> make sense but it works.
>>
>> I also developed Chef::Provider::Service::Opensolaris which does the
>> basics with svcs/svcadmin and has worked for me thus far. I intend to make
>> more revisions to these as time/need permits but here it is now.
>>
>> Also put together a very mininum zfs resource/provider pair. Far from
>> complete but it got the job done :)
>>
>> There was also some issues with building and installing. I ran into the
>> "isinf()" undefined symbol, addressed here:
>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation+on+OpenSolaris+2008.11+with+RubyGems
>>
>> And from snv101 to svn111 the install prefixes changes durastically too.
>> Uncertain why
>>
>> The attached tar.gz contains the three providers (and resources)
>> mentioned, it'd be nice to get these put into mainstream chef.
>>
>> Keep it cooking,
>>
>> ~ Sig
>>
>>
>
>



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