[chef] Re: knife vsphere plugin

[Daniel Condomitti < >]

knife.rb either in your chef repository's .chef directory, or ~/.chef. My company-specific file looks something like this:

current_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)

log_level                :info

log_location             STDOUT

node_name                "chefusername"

client_key               "#{current_dir}/chefusername.pem"

validation_client_name   "org-validator"

validation_key           "#{current_dir}/org-validator.pem"

chef_server_url          "https://api.opscode.com/organizations/orgname"

cookbook_path            ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]

encrypted_data_bag_secret "#{current_dir}/encrypted_data_bag_secret"

knife[:sort_status_reverse] = true

knife[:vsphere_host] = "vsphere-hostname.example.com"

knife[:vsphere_user] = "username"

knife[:vsphere_pass] = "dat password"

knife[:vsphere_dc] = "OrgName"

knife[:vsphere_insecure] = false # require valid SSL certificates, use true 

                                 # if using self-signed certificates that aren't 

                                 # trusted in your local cacert.pem

On Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 4:19 PM, wrote:

I'm starting to look at the vsphere knife plugin for creating VMs and

provisioning them with Chef. One thing that is confusing me is how to specify

the chef server to use, and where to specify the pem validation files. Where

does that get set?