[chef] Re: Re: Re: knife ec2 create fails SSH auth

[Cassiano Leal < >]

Cool. So for now I'll just have to make sure that knife.rb is properly configured before issuing a command.

Thanks,

- cassiano

On Friday, January 18, 2013 at 13:22, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

On Friday, January 18, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Cassiano Leal wrote:

Never mind. Fixing the key path on knife.rb solved it.

I remember knife having a bug where the CLI arguments did not take precedence over knife.rb when they should, but I (barely) recall seeing e-mails about that being fixed, am I wrong?

I'm using knife 10.18.0

Cheers,

- cassiano

In Chef 10.x, it's sort-of been a game of whack-a-mole with getting the precedence correct. For Chef 11, we've recently committed a fix where knife will handle precedence in the correct way automatically:

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3497

https://github.com/opscode/chef/pull/583

This builds on a recent change we shipped for mixlib-cli:

https://github.com/opscode/mixlib-cli/pull/11

There will probably be some follow-up changes in Chef 11 to remove workarounds and such.

For knife plugin authors, there is some discussion about how these changes impact knife plugin development here:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Breaking+Changes+in+Chef+11#BreakingChangesinChef11-KnifeConfigurationParameterChanges

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Daniel DeLeo