[chef] Re: advise on first chef invocation on a VM

[Motiejus Jakštys < >]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Motiejus Jakštys 
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 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are creating chef nodes using xen-create-image. I am creating a
> separate role, which is supposed to install chef via omnibus. There
> are two approaches to that:
> 1) run chef-client to fully install the system during xen-create-image
> phase (in chroot)
> 2) install chef the way that after first reboot it would run
> chef-client and completely configure by itself.
>
> I would prefer (2), because it is more "real" scenario, and would not
> increase (quite long already) time of xen-create-image.
>
> Is there a way to install chef with only chef-client recipe? Or is it
> generally considered "ok" to do it the (1) way?

Found it! Here is the script :)

chroot ${prefix} http_proxy=http://wwwcache:8080 wget
-O/tmp/install.sh http://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh
chroot ${prefix} http_proxy=http://wwwcache:8080 bash /tmp/install.sh
chroot ${prefix} knife configure client /etc/chef -s "http://chef.server:4000";
cp /etc/chef/validation.pem ${prefix}/etc/chef/
chroot ${prefix} chef-client -o recipe[chef-client]
chroot ${prefix} /etc/init.d/chef-client stop

The whole secret is chef-client -o.

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Motiejus Jakštys