[chef] Re: Re: Not able to create Environments and Roles using Chef-solo and knife

[Jeff Byrnes < >]

Venkat,

Those particular knife commands are meant for using Knife to talk to a Chef Server; they’re not used for Chef Solo (so far as I’m aware). You can check the docs on Chef Solo here: http://docs.opscode.com/chef_solo.html

That private key error refers to the fact that, for Knife to talk to a Chef Server, you must have a private key generated by said Chef Server.

While I haven’t done it myself, it appears you can work around this; here’s a Gist I turned up that walks you through the process a bit, though it’s a bit light on details: https://gist.github.com/doitian/1501318.

You can, of course, also generate the roles, environments, etc. manually; it’s pretty straightforward JSON, and there are examples of each of these things online. From Chef’s own docs:

• http://docs.opscode.com/essentials_environments.html#json
• http://docs.opscode.com/essentials_roles.html#json

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On March 17, 2014 at 8:49:01 AM, Venkat Chowdhary ( "> ) wrote:

Hi

    Can someone please help me? Do we have any plug in to create Roles, Environments in chef-solo like how we do using knife (knife environment create ENVIRONMENT, knife role create ROLE).

 

Thanks & Regards

Venkat

On Monday, 17 March 2014 12:53 PM, Venkat Chowdhary < > wrote:

Hi

I am installed chef-solo using curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash

But, When i am trying to create Roles and Environments, i am getting below error:

knife role create test 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

As i am using chef-solo, i don't have /etc/chef/client.pem (i guess this will be available in Chef server and client model).

And i think knife is not best option in chef-solo as most knife commands are basically wrappers around uploading and downloading data to/from a chef server (If i am correct).

So, Chef experts, could you please help/guide me how to create roles, environments and deployment using chef-solo.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks & Regards

Venkat