[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: knife on windows

[Maven User < >]

Thanks again for all the tips up until this point - the documentation for knife usage on windows is really confusing.

It just skips from running the client install/setup to running knife commands - nothing about the "knife configure -i" step.

I'm also not sure if this is expected behavior but the windows guide talks about C:\chef\.chef yet knife creates a lot of things in ~/.chef (in windows).

Do things need to be replicated between these two areas or did I make a mistake?

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Maven User < "> > wrote:

I'm just leaving them behind for now...

There are steps in setting up a new chef node for editing cookbooks/receipies/etc:

• If you're using hosted chef, copy over your YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME-validator.pem to c:\chef\YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME-validator.pem
• Copy your validation.pem provided by your server or the platform to c:\chef\validation.pem

If I'm not using hosted chef, what should this validator file be named?

Where does one retrieve the validation.pem file from the server?  So far I've scp'd it around, is that the right way to do this if I have chef-server up and running?

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Maven User < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Excellent - ok, so that clears up a few other things.

If I want to use knife, I need to install chef-client.

But now I have several clients created that I can't delete from the server (I'm going through the webui).

Any other suggestions?

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Adam Jacob < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Knife uses chef as a library, so not really feasible to separate them
without quite a bit more work.

Adam

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Maven User < " target="_blank"> > wrote:
> Done -
>
> http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2623
>
> I'm going to go look at the source now...
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Maven User < " target="_blank"> > wrote:
>>
>> So here's a question that isn't clear to me by looking over the
>> documentation.
>>
>> If you wanted to trigger deployments, could you just have ONLY knife
>> installed?
>>
>> It seems like if you want knife, you also have to have chef-client
>> installed.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Daniel DeLeo < " target="_blank"> > wrote:
>>>
>>> On Friday, September 16, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Maven User wrote:
>>> > So I ran the git commit command by hand with " instead of single
>>> > quotes:
>>> >
>>> > D:\buildtools\chef\cookbooks>git commit -m 'Import chef-client version
>>> > 1.0.2'
>>> > error: pathspec 'version' did not match any file(s) known to git.
>>> >  error: pathspec '1.0.2'' did not match any file(s) known to git.
>>> >
>>> > D:\buildtools\chef\cookbooks>git commit -m "Import chef-client version
>>> > 1.0.2"
>>> > [chef-vendor-chef-client 0b23e8c] Import chef-client version 1.0.2
>>> > 19 files changed, 1112 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/README.md (http://README.md)
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/attributes/default.rb
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/metadata.json
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/metadata.rb
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/recipes/config.rb
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/recipes/default.rb
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/recipes/delete_validation.rb
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/recipes/service.rb
>>> > create mode 100644
>>> > chef-client/templates/arch/conf.d/chef-client.conf.erb
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/templates/arch/rc.d/chef-client.erb
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/templates/default/chef-client.pill.erb
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/templates/default/client.rb.erb
>>> > create mode 100644
>>> > chef-client/templates/default/debian/default/chef-client.erb
>>> > create mode 100644
>>> > chef-client/templates/default/debian/init.d/chef-client.erb
>>> > create mode 100644
>>> > chef-client/templates/default/debian/init/chef-client.conf.erb
>>> > create mode 100644
>>> > chef-client/templates/default/redhat/init.d/chef-client.erb
>>> > create mode 100644
>>> > chef-client/templates/default/redhat/sysconfig/chef-client.erb
>>> > create mode 100644
>>> > chef-client/templates/default/sv-chef-client-log-run.erb
>>> > create mode 100644 chef-client/templates/default/sv-chef-client-run.erb
>>> >
>>> > Any suggestions where this is controlled or why this is borked like
>>> > this?
>>>
>>> The code is here:
>>> https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/knife/cookbook_site_install.rb
>>>
>>> Sounds like a bug, you should file a ticket at tickets.opscode.com for
>>> the CHEF project, knife component.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Maven User < " target="_blank">
>>> > (mailto: " target="_blank"> )> wrote:
>>> > >  Ok, made it by this - not sure if this was the right thing to do,
>>> > > but I pulled down the pem files from the master server and added it to my
>>> > > local .chef directory.
>>> Yeah, generally each user should be using his own key. How did you create
>>> the first one? `knife configure -i` is designed to create your first user.
>>> Then you'd copy the key that it creates to your workstation. After that you
>>> can use `knife client create -a -n -f KEYFILE USERNAME` to create new admin
>>> users. From where you're at now, I'd recommend using that command to create
>>> a new user for yourself instead of using the webui user.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dan DeLeo
>>>
>>
>
>

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