[chef] Re: Re: RE: Moving from gem chef to omnibus

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Wolfe, Eric G wrote:

You can just copy over the couchdb file to the new server. There is no reason to rekey all your clients just because you migrated your chef server.

There is no "official" Omnibus package for Chef Server 10.x. If you poke around, you can probably find the ones we made as demos in the S3 bucket, but those will certainly have the security vulnerability we patched last week still present.

We decided to wait to officially release omnibus packages for Chef Server until Chef 11 because we were in the process of moving to a much easier and reliable test setup[0] and didn't have a great way to test server builds under 10.x.

Also keep in mind that Chef 11 server uses Postgres instead of couch, so migration will likely use a script of some sort to move the data around. Chef 11 is still prerelease and the aforementioned migration tool is not yet written, so I would only recommend migrating to omnibus server install if you feel like it's worth a lot of work to live on the edge.

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Daniel DeLeo

0. https://github.com/opscode/chef-pedant