[chef] Knife-windows 0.5.14.rc.1 Release Candidate available for testing

[Adam Edwards < >]

Hello Chefs. We have a knife-windows release candidate on which we’d like to get your feedback. It’s been a while since the last release, so there are a lot of fixed tickets listed below. If you find issues with your scenarios please report them with a ticket in https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE and send it to the mailing list.

 

To test, you’ll need to do the following instead of a gem install (see end of the message if you’d like to know why):

 

gem install bundler # if it’s not already installed

git clone https://github.com/opscode/knife-windows

cd knife-windows

bundle install

bundle exec knife bootstrap windows winrm 192.168.0.6 -x administrator -P 'yourpassword' -c path-to-your-knife-config

 

Broadly, many of the changes involved more robust error-handling and retries to the bootstrap process for Windows, additional instrumentation for troubleshooting, and closer parity with the non-Windows knife bootstrap command-line.

 

The specific list of issues addressed in this knife-windows 0.5.14 release is given below:

 

KNIFE-401           Windows Bootstrap logs RSA Private Key

KNIFE-391           Knife-ec2 + Knife-windows fails to bootstrap Windows 2012 machine

KNIFE-371           knife-windows github page links to not accessible ticket page

KNIFE-354           Knife-windows error on installing to Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1

KNIFE-336           Add hint to set basic auth

KNIFE-325           Support no_proxy

KNIFE-323           Add travis and fix rubygems source

KNIFE-296           knife-windows overrides -x option with winrm-user

KNIFE-286           Windows bootstrap template does not render json-attributes

KNIFE-285           Error during windows bootstrapping

KNIFE-276           winrm should support nested attributes

KNIFE-270           knife bootstrap ssh for a windows node fails when TEMP directory has spaces

KNIFE-259           knife-windows should use "no UI" flag for msiexec

KNIFE-249           Bootstrap Windows Returns 404 on chef-client.msi download (bad url in REMOTE_SOURCE_MSI_URL)

KNIFE-242           Add support to pass JSON attributes to 'knife bootstrap windows winrm'

KNIFE-235           knife-windows winrm doesn't work -- returns no nodes from search

KNIFE-232           `knife winrm` will errantly exclude all nodes

KNIFE-29              Should be able to choose msi version

 

*Gem testing note: Due to https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4696, pre-release knife gems won’t be loaded by recent versions of Chef, hence the bundler workaround given above. The ticket lists additional workarounds. If your version of Chef is not affected by the bug (Chef 11.4.0 or earlier), you can test the release candidate through a normal gem install since we have published the gem at http://rubygems.org/gems/knife-windows/versions/0.5.14.rc.1. CHEF-4696 has a fix that’s being tested for a future release of Chef.

 

Thank you.

 

-Adam