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[chef] Re: Issues/Clarifications for Chef-Solo


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  • From: JJ Asghar < >
  • To: Venkat Chowdhary < >, " " < >
  • Subject: [chef] Re: Issues/Clarifications for Chef-Solo
  • Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:42:00 +0000
  • Accept-language: en-US
Venkat, 

Heh, that’s funny, I was just talking to someone around the same things they wanted to do.

Luckly, I just pointed them to https://github.com/jjasghar/chef-book (yes a selfless plug) to help them spring board into the chef ecosystem.

Don’t hesitate to ask questions if you have any :)

Best Regards,
JJ Asghar
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Hi

Below are my tasks which i am planning todo using chef solo (not chef server/client):

        1) I want to install all software's like apache2, virgo, redis, mysql etc ...
        2) I want to do configurations for all softwares installed above.
        3) I want to trigger all deployments
        4) I want to do localization of all property files in entire repository (App server repository , database repository etc ...)
        5) I want to create separate environments like production, staging, testing, and development environments
        6) I want to create roles like web server, database etc ...
       7) I want to add different nodes in different environments 
       etc ... basically all tasks like infrastructure management, configuration and deployments.

       Could you please kindly suggest whether can i able to do all above tasks using chef-solo only ? Or shall i move to Chef Server?

       I am already installed chef-solo and prepared  few cookbooks and recipes, and i am getting below issue for most of the knife commands like:
       knife environment list
       WARNING: No knife configuration file found
       ERROR: Your private key could not be loaded from /etc/chef/client.pem
       Check your configuration file and ensure that your private key is readable

       I am commented out client_key and validation_key in .chef/knife.rb.  Am i really required knife configuration file? If so how can i get it? I installed chef using 

      And also please suggest how can i do deployments using chef solo or any other plugins which will be helpful for me to achieve all above mentioned goals.

      Your help is highly appreciable.
 
Thanks & Regards
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