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- Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Install specific chef version using omnibus
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:15:40 -0400
Try using knife's option: --bootstrap-version VERSION
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Sachin Sagar Rai
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This is also being a problem for me as well while firing up new node on EC2.
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How to specify the version when launching the new instance on ec2 via knife?
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On Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Jon-Erik Schneiderhan wrote:
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Thank you so much for the reply! I was hoping there was a parameter I
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could pass to specify the version - this is exactly what I was looking
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for.
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FYI - The bug I am seeing is detailed here
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https://github.com/sensu/sensu-chef/issues/61 (Cannot find a resource
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for assert_enclosing_directory_exists!)
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Daniel DeLeo
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On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tim Smith wrote:
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Bryan,
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Has Opscode put together a policy on retention of previous versions of
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Chef within the Omnibus installer? I am a bit hesitant to use a script to
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install a very critical part of my infrastructure without certainty that
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the version I need will be there in the future. Older versions of Chef 10
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are already missing from apt.opscode.com, but the use of debs allows
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anyone to archive off versions they rely on to a local repository. That
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goes away if you rely on a script to install Chef. While I'd like to
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always run the current release of Chef, parts of my infrastructure still
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run on Chef .9 and upgrading it tricky sometimes. Will there be a posted
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lifecycle for each release?
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Thanks,
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Tim
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Just to be clear, the script is just a bit of magic to figure out which OS
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and CPU architecture you're on, the installation is done via whatever
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package manager is appropriate for your system.
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If you go to http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/ and click through the
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drop-down menus, you can get links to the actual packages, which you can
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archive as needed. If you want to automate this process for various OSes and
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architectures, you can grab the Location headers from the download URL (or
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just follow the redirect):
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http://www.opscode.com/chef/download?v=${version}&p=${platform}&pv=${platform_version}&m=${machine}
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As far as a retention policy, we haven't decided anything yet, but it's not
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our intention to force people to upgrade to versions they're not ready for.
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Since the Omnibus packages are a new feature, we decided not to backport old
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versions of Chef, but this doesn't imply that older versions will be purged.
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HTH,
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Daniel DeLeo
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