[chef] Re: RE: chef server 12 issues (Sorry, I can't find what you are looking for)

[Eric Swenson < >]

Well, I created a new knife.rb file and pointed to the new PEM.  The fact
that I¹m able to do a ³knife user show USER² and seeing the message that I
successfully authenticated to the chef server suggests that I¹m able to
get to the chef server and authenticate.

However, I saw no documentation on a totally different format of knife.rb
(can¹t believe PEM files are totally different).  My knife.rb looks like
this:

log_level        :debug
log_location     STDOUT
node_name        'eswenson'
client_key       
'/Users/eswenson/Projects/Kabuto/on_prem/chef-repo/.chef/eswenson.pem'
validation_key   
'/Users/eswenson/Projects/Kabuto/on_prem/chef-repo/.chef/on_prem_kabuto.pem
'
chef_server_url  'https://<hostname redacted>:443'
validation_client_name 'chef-validator'
chef_repo_path   '/Users/eswenson/Projects/Kabuto/on_prem/chef-repo'

Where can I find documentation on the new knife.rb format?


‹ Eric

On 12/3/14, 12:57 PM, "Fouts, Chris" 
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 wrote:

>Did you update your *.pem files and knife.rb to make your chef
>workstation compatible with your Chef 12 server? The format is totally
>different.
>
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Swenson 
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>Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 3:51 PM
>To: 
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>Subject: [chef] chef server 12 issues (Sorry, I can't find what you are
>looking for)
>
>I have been successfully using Chef with a non-hosted Chef Server for
>quite some time. I recently installed a new Chef Server 12 server and the
>latest ChefDK.  Now, I'm unable to use the "knife cookbook upload"
>command to upload cookbooks to the new Chef server. Knife displays the
>HTML (ugh) response from the server, which includes the 404 HTTP status
>code and helpful message: Sorry, I can't find what you are look for.
>
>In fact, the server appears to return 404 for lots of knife commands
>(e.g. "knife role list", "knife role create ROLE", "knife cookbook list",
>"knife client list", etc.).  It appears to work fine for "knife user show
>USER" (returning my user entry) and appears to be access checking fine,
>for commands like "knife user list", which tells me I'm not the pivotal
>user.  But why is it not allowing me to create roles and upload
>cookbooks, etc?
>
>I'd like to not have to revert to Chef 11.
>
>Note: I installed the bare (no premium features) of Chef Server 12.  As
>far as I can tell, this is all that should be required.