[chef] Re: Re: Deploying server under CentOS

[Albert Llop < >]

I amanged to have chef server working on CentOS up to 8.16 aswell, but 9.6 has just been completely impossible. I've managed to update it all, launch all the services, but there's no way in hell I can get to log in to the webui admin.

Will try to get an ubuntu virtual machine working to save me some hassle in the future, and if I can't (or the boss doesn't approve, which could be :P) will try Paul's tips! Thanks a lot!!
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On 9 July 2010 00:03, Paul Choi < "> > wrote:

It was a bit painful but I built my own set of RPMs for CentOS 4 (we run a mixed environment of CentOS 4 and CentOS 5), for Chef 0.8.16.
I don't have the bandwidth to test 0.9 at this point.

gem2rpm is your friend (assuming you have rpmbuild environment set up):
 gem install gem2rpm

 gem fetch shadow
 gem2rpm shadow-1.1.gem > SPECS/rubygem-shadow.spec
 rpmbuild -ba SPECS/rubygem-shadow.spec

You can build all of Chef's ruby gem dependencies that way.
Then you can fetch ELFF's latest rubygem-chef SRPM from http://download.elff.bravenet.com/5/SRPMS/. You'd need to edit the spec file a bit to make it work, but it can be done.

If and when I have time to test 0.9 and deploy across my org, I'll contribute.

-Paul

On 7/8/10 2:24 PM, Albert Llop wrote:

Hi there!
I've been battling today trying to update my chef server to the latest version (0.9.6) but have been a complete disaster. We run everything under centos 5.3 so far, and I haven't found much support in that area, since most of the documentation / bootstrapping cookbooks mention mostly only ubuntu support. What would you suggest to be the best course of action? I have a very small environment of only 5 clients, preparing for a bigger future, so scrapping everything can be considered. Would it be worth it to create a new chef server on an ubuntu based system, keep battling, or just wait for the rpm's to be updated?

Is there anyone else hosting the server in a centos that can share his experience?
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