[chef] Re: knife bootstrap using Chef-Solo?

[AJ Christensen < >]

Yo,

Sounds like you want to write your own bootstrap template.

Have a look at these:
https://github.com/opscode/chef/tree/master/chef/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap

Modify and drop one of these in your CHEF_REPO/.chef/bootstrap and use
it with one of the following:

knife bootstrap --template-file .chef/bootstrap/foo.erb OR
knife bootstrap --distro foo

Cheers,

AJ

On 10 January 2012 20:52, Torben Knerr 
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 wrote:
> Ohai guys!
>
> Is there an example of knife-bootstrapping a chef node without having a chef
> server?
>
> I was thinking of something like 'knife bootstrap IP_ADDRESS -x user -P pass
> --sudo -r "role[myrole]" --repo-tar "/path/to/tarballed/chef-repo.tgz"'
> which would then upload the .tgz and use chef-solo to bootstrap the node
> without a chef server required.
>
> From looking at the wiki, knife bootstrap doesn't support this. Is there
> another easy way to achieve the same thing?
>
> Sure this would be limited as you could not do searches and data bags. I am
> looking for a solution to set up VMs using Chef recipes if you don't have a
> Chef Server available.
>
> Cheers,
> Torben