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

[Ryan Richards < >]

Hey Torben:

I was using knife-solo recently - worked very well - 
https://github.com/matschaffer/knife-solo

Ryan
On Jan 10, 2012, at 1:52 AM, Torben Knerr 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