[chef] Re: Accessing Knife via Ruby

[Zuhaib Siddique < >]

Noah,

True but I just want to simplify things by using knife and accessing the 
keys.  I guess I could just load the knife.rb and parse out the information.

Zuhaib
On Dec 29, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:

> On Dec 29, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Zuhaib Siddique wrote:
> 
>> Hey,
>> 
>> So I am writing a ruby script that will help with our deployments and as 
>> part of that I am leveraging the Chef REST API which is great but with 
>> some of that information I want to be able to pass that over to knife to 
>> do deletes.  An example code is the following:
>> 
>> require 'chef/knife/ec2_server_delete'
>> delete_ec2 = Chef::Knife::Ec2ServerDelete.new()
>> delete_ec2.name_args = node.ec2.instance_id
>> delete_ec2.run
>> 
>> This works but I get the following error: 
>> 
>> ERROR: You did not provided a valid 'AWS Access Key Id' value.
>> ERROR: You did not provided a valid 'AWS Secret Access Key' value.
>> 
>> But both are set and work correctly from the command line.  Also If I do 
>> this using the knife exec command it works.  I assume I am missing 
>> something in my ruby but I am just pulling a blank and can't seem to find 
>> any hints from looking at the chef/knife source code.  Any pointers would 
>> be great.
> 
> There isn't really any reason to try and use Knife like this, just use Fog 
> directly for a much better API.
> 
> --Noah
>