[chef] RE: Re: RE: Re: knife vsphere plugin

["Jeff Storey" < >]

Thanks. Didn't realize the first half came from the knife page. Appreciate 
the info.


-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Condomitti 
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Sent: Sun 10/14/2012 4:46 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: knife vsphere plugin
 
The first half of the configuration is from the wiki 
(http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Knife) and the vsphere plugin stuff is 
documented on its github repo (https://github.com/ezrapagel/knife-vsphere)


On Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Jeff Storey wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> Thanks. Is this information documented somewhere?
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Condomitti 
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> Sent: Sun 10/14/2012 4:40 PM
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> Subject: [chef] Re: knife vsphere plugin
> 
> 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 
> (http://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, 
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>  wrote:
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> > 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?
> > 
> 
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