[chef] Re: Vagrant and Chef client and server

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 10:10 AM, wrote:

We have just started working with Chef and are still trying to figure it out.

We have successfully used Vagrant to created both a Chef server VM and a Chef

client VM that connects to the server. We used Vagrantfiles that we found on

the web that use the chef-server and chef-client cookbooks.

However, the client creation and connection to the server only works if the

client's node does not exist on the server - if chef-client can create the node

on the server it works fine. But, we would like to create the node on the

server first, and populate a run list for it, before creating the VM with

Vagrant. The error I get when I try it is appended.

If you want to follow this approach, you need to create the client first and use it to create the node. Personally, I really like this approach, so it's what I'm doing in my experimental rewrite of bootstrap. Relevant code is here:

https://github.com/danielsdeleo/bootstrapper/blob/master/lib/bootstrapper/controller.rb

BTW, please don't use that repo in production, there's a ton of work-in-progress, options that don't work, etc.

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Daniel DeLeo