[chef] Re: Re: how to know whether knife bootstrap succeeds?

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Haim Ashkenazi
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> AFAIK it always exits with exit-code 0 so unless you look at the output you
> can't tell whether it failed. I wrote my own wrapper to launch ec2 instance,
> use Chef::Knife::Bootstrap's ssh_command to get the parsed template (which I
> modified and added 'set -e') and use custom Net::SSH block to indicate the
> exit code of the command. It was a little work, but since I use the same
> process for many machine types it was worth it. If you're interested I can
> post relevant parts of the code here.

There is some discussion surrounding returning exit codes from knife
on this ticket:

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2627

Bryan