[chef] Re: Bootstrapping a node without internet access.

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 2/24/14 8:16 AM, Kenneth Barry wrote:
>  I see reference to this in the documentation, but am unclear how it 
> might be accomplished. Anyone with a link to a tutorial or guide on 
> how this is to be accomplished?
if you've got your own internal kickstart server and yum repo then you 
could simply download the chef client RPMs and put them in your repo and 
then have your ks.cfg install and configure the client. you don't 
necessarily need to use bootstrap.

if all your servers are uniform (you only use RHEL6 or Ubuntu 12.04 or 
whatever) then you don't really need all the machinery of install.sh 
which has its own mini-ohai and then uses a webservice to find the 
latest chef client to install.  you can pin the distros that you use and 
pin the chef-client versions that you use and write your own simplified 
bootstrap scripts that just wget/curl the package you like and then 
install and bootstrap it.  if you have your chef-client packages 
accessible somewhere that both your public and private clouds can find 
it (or a list of URLs that you can plow through until you get one that 
doesn't error because of firewalls) then you can have one knife 
bootstrap script that works across all your clouds, but without needing 
install.sh

i wouldn't try porting install.sh directly to your internal 
infrastructure since it relies on the omnitruck API.  its been mentioned 
that we should ship omnitruck with enterprise chef (nee private chef) 
along with some scripts to sync our packages from S3 down to a repo 
sitting on the internal EC server, but that's never bubbled up to the 
top of things to do.