[chef] Knife-azure 1.1.4.rc.0 Release Candidate available for testing

[Adam Edwards < >]

Ohai again Chefs. We also have a knife-azure release candidate today  – if you’re an Azure user, please take a look at the issues list below for changes that might interest you and give them a try, or just give it a sanity run in your environment. Please report any issues with a ticket in https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE.

 

For testing, you’ll need to do the following instead of a gem install (details on why at the end of the message):

 

gem install bundler # if it’s not already installed

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

cd knife-azure

bundle install

bundle exec knife azure server create -I b39f27a8b8c64d52b05eac6a62ebad85__Ubuntu-13_04-amd64-server-20130824-en-us-30GB  --azure-vm-size Medium --ssh-user youruser --identity-file ~/.ssh/your-ssh -c path-to-your-knife-config

knife azure server create -I your-windows-sysprepped  --azure-vm-size Medium –winrm-user youruser --winrm-password 'yourpassword'

# other knife azure commands, etc.

 

The list of issues addressed in this knife-azure 1.1.4 release is given below:

 

KNIFE-407           knife azure should assume windows-chef-client-msi for --distro parameter

KNIFE-406           knife azure image list should include image location in output

KNIFE-405           Knife-azure server create leaks cloud services on failure to create vm

KNIFE-404           knife azure server create fails if you specify 5985 for --tcp-endpoints

KNIFE-403           Knife-azure should auto-generate the VM name

KNIFE-402           Knife-azure causes gem conflict with nokogiri 1.6

KNIFE-380           Encrypted data bag file configuration not detected when bootstrapping Windows server

KNIFE-375           Bug in enhancement to clean up resources when provisioning fails.

KNIFE-361           Delete underlying VHD blob image from Azure Storage by default when deleting Virtual Machine

KNIFE-360           Add support for adding Virtual Machine to Availability Set during provisioning

KNIFE-358           knife-azure tries to bootstrap too quickly

KNIFE-291           Support for Virtual Networks when creating a VM

 

*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-azure/versions/1.1.4.rc.0.  CHEF-4696 has a fix that’s being tested for a future release of Chef.

 

Thank you.

 

-Adam