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

[Torben Knerr < >]

Hi AJ, Ryan,

thanks for your help! I will look at both options. At first glance knife-solo seems to be easier to use, but more far away from the way knife bootstrap does it when using a chef server, which could make the switch to knife bootstrap with a chef server later on a bit more complicated. Have to try it out...

Thanks,
Torben

Am 10.01.2012 09:27 schrieb "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