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[chef] Running Chef client in a VMware VSphere 4 Service Console?


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  • From: Farzad FARID < >
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  • Subject: [chef] Running Chef client in a VMware VSphere 4 Service Console?
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:08:28 +0100
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Hi,

I have deployed a Chef infrastructure on my customer's site, only on Linux systems for now, and I wonder if it's possible to install the Chef client on the Service Console of the VMware VSphere 4.x hypervisors?

The VSphere Service Console is a modified Red Hat distribution:
    # cat /etc/redhat-release
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)
    # uname -a
Linux lsvsphere01 2.6.18-164.ESX #1 Tue Oct 26 03:35:26 PDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The distribution is not complete, there is no Ruby interpreter, but even Perl 5.8.8 & Python 2.4.3 are installed. So I guess it should be feasible to install the needed dependency and run a Chef agent.

Has anyone already done this?

Regards,

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