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

[AJ Christensen < >]

If you pass the '-r' remote cookbook URL flag to chef-solo it will
download the bootstrap-latest.tar.gz and extract it to the cookbook
path, effectively clobbering your work of deploying a copy of the Git
cookbook; reverting you back to 1.1.1.

This will not work.

You need to use the chef-server v2.0.0 cookbook to deploy erchef11.
The opscode chef-server v2.0.0 cookbook has been very reliable in all
of my testing across all of the platforms we have under management.

Cheers,

AJ

On 5 February 2013 13:10, Phil Mocek 
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 >
 wrote:
> 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>
>
> --
> Phil Mocek
> http://mocek.org/