[chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Migrating chef servers

[Ranjib Dey < >]

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require "chef"

Chef::Config.from_file('your knife.rb')

Chef::ApiClient.list.keys.each do |ac_name|

  ac=Chef::ApiClient.load(ac_name)

  p ac.public_key

end

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Kendrick Martin < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

How would I go about retrieving the public key from the db?

 

From: Ranjib Dey [mailto: " target="_blank"> ]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 11:11 AM
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Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: Migrating chef servers

 

can u verify  if your old and new couch db has the same public key for the apiclient you are using in knife.rb?

 

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Kendrick Martin < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I tried tarring the /var/lib/chef, /etc/chef, /etc/couchdb, and  /var/lib/couchdb  directories on my old server, and replacing them on my new server, but I’m getting failed to authenticate errors when using knife against the new server.

 

From: Ranjib Dey [mailto: " target="_blank"> ]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 10:53 AM
To: " target="_blank">
Subject: [chef] Re: Migrating chef servers

 

replicate the couchdb

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Kendrick Martin < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Is there an easy way to migrate chef servers without having to re-gen the client keys for every node and copy a new validation.pem file?

 

Kendrick Martin

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