[chef] Re: Creating a Vagrant cluster with chef-metal - any special configuration required around ssh port forwarding?

[Chris Patti < >]

Folks, I spoke with the author on Twitter, and he suggested I use the master branch of chef-metal.  That did indeed allow me to build the cluster - now I can't get 'metal execute' to work - but - progress! :)

-Chris

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Chris Patti < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Lamont and anyone else who's encountered this - I filed an issue on the chef-metal Github repo.  Maybe pop over there and add your +1 to the permanent record? :)

https://github.com/opscode/chef-metal/issues/123

Also I found the following in the chef-metal Chefconf talk, and tried adding it, to no avail:

----

require 'chef_metal'

require 'chef_metal_vagrant'

vagrant_cluster '/Users/cpatti/Vagrants'

vagrant_box 'chef/ubuntu-14.04' do

  url 'https://vagrantcloud.com/chef/ubuntu-14.04/version/1/provider/virtualbox.box'

end

machine 'skycrank-gearbox' do

  tag 'master'

  recipe "skycrank-gearbox::default"

  converge true

end

machine 'skycrank01' do

  tag 'gear'

  converge true

end

machine 'skycrank02' do

  tag 'gear'

  converge true

end

I'm going to switch gears and try modeling this cluster in Rackspace, they have some good docs so hopefully they've smoothed away some of the rough edges :)

-Chris

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Lamont Granquist < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

And +1, I've been meaning to ping someone about this.  I'm always seeing the same problems.  Also happens on digital ocean droplets, so doesn't seem to just be vagrant related.

On Sun Aug 17 15:58:51 2014, Chris Patti wrote:

Hello all!

I have a very simple chef metal script:
---
require 'chef_metal'

machine 'skycrank-gearbox' do
  tag 'master'
  recipe "skycrank-gearbox::default"
  converge true
end

machine 'skycrank01' do
  tag 'gear'
  converge true
end

machine 'skycrank02' do
  tag 'gear'
  converge true
end
-------

My CHEF_DRIVER is set thusly:
-------
export CHEF_DRIVER="vagrant:/Users/cpatti/Vagrants"

And my ~/.chef/knife.rb contains the following vagrant/machine options:
-------
machine_options  :vagrant_options => { 'vm.box' => 'chef/ubuntu-14.04',
                                       'vm.box_url' =>
'https://vagrantcloud.com/chef/ubuntu-14.04/version/1/provider/virtualbox.box'
}

(I also tried just using vm.box => 'precise64' FWIW that yielded no
change)

Every time I try to run this, it seems to go along nicely for a bit,
then I get:
-----

================================================================================
    Error executing action `converge` on resource 'machine_batch[default]'

================================================================================

    Net::SSH::Exception
    -------------------
    remote forwarding request failed

    Resource Declaration:
    ---------------------
    # In
/Users/cpatti/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-metal-0.13/lib/chef_metal/recipe_dsl.rb

     82:             batch = build_resource(:machine_batch,
machine_batch_default_name) do
     83:               action resource.action
     84:               machines [ previous, resource ]
     85:             end
     86:             batch.from_recipe self

    Compiled Resource:
    ------------------
    # Declared in
/Users/cpatti/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/chef-metal-0.13/lib/chef_metal/recipe_dsl.rb:82:in
`machine'


---

Can anyone give me some clues as to what I'm doing wrong here please?
I'm stuck.

Thanks!
-Chris


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