[chef] Re: bootstrapping Chef server fails with "no valid gem 'chef-server-api' (= 11.0.0)"

[Phil Mocek < >]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:13:37PM -0700, Joshua Timberman wrote:
> We haven't released to the community site the chef-server
> cookbook version for chef 11.
> 
> You can get it from the GitHub repository. We will release the
> new version (2.0.0) later today. 

Thanks for the tip.

Unfortunately, it seems the problem is that
<http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz> still
contains the obsolete cookbook.  I put a copy of chef-server
cookbook 2.0.0 in the location where chef-solo is configured to
expect cookbooks:

>> 
 :~#
>>  grep ^cookbook /etc/chef/solo.rb
>> cookbook_path "/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks"
>> 
 :~#
>>  grep ^version /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/chef-server/metadata.rb 
>> version           "1.1.1"
>> 
 :~#
>>  cd /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/
>> 
 :/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks#
>>  rm -rf chef-server
>> 
 :/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks#
>>  git clone git://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-server.git
>> Cloning into 'chef-server'...
>> remote: Counting objects: 460, done.
>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (240/240), done.
>> remote: Total 460 (delta 233), reused 407 (delta 188)
>> Receiving objects: 100% (460/460), 87.39 KiB, done.
>> Resolving deltas: 100% (233/233), done.
>> 
 :/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks#
>>  cd -
>> 
 :~#
>>  grep ^version /tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/chef-server/metadata.rb 
>> version           "2.0.0"

I again ran:

>> chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j /etc/chef/chef.json -r 
>> http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

And I observed the same failure.

Is there a more reliable method of bootstrapping a Chef server?
Alternatively, what would I need to modify in order to install a
version of Chef server that is compatible with the chef-server
cookbook in the bootstrap-latest archive?

Again:  I'm following [directions on the Opscode wiki][1].  I
don't see any server installation documentation on the [docs
site][2].


References:

 [1]: 
<http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo#InstallingChefServerusingChefSolo-BootstrapChefServer>
 [2]: <http://docs.opscode.com/#the-chef-server>

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