[chef] Re: Machine resource

[Justin Dossey < >]

1. In the machine's convergence options, you can override the URL to the install.sh script (:install_sh_url, default: http://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh) and use a custom script instead to force the version.  You could also override the :install_sh_path option to be something like "/tmp/install.sh -v 11.16.8" but that may not work forever.  Finally, you could use an image that already has the chef-client version you prefer installed and chef-provisioning won't do a chef-client installation.  The code that installs the chef client in most cases is in chef-provisioning/lib/chef/provisioning/install_sh.rb.

2. If the chef server URL is an https url, the ssl_verify_mode is :verify_peer.  Otherwise it is :verify_none.  That's all the control you get.  (You can see the code for this in chef-provisioning/lib/chef/provisioning/convergence_strategy/precreate_chef_objects.rb.)

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Mark Pimentel < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi all,

Would anyone know how to pass the bootstrap chef-client version to the machine resource?

I would like to use the machine resource to provision a machine but it seems to want to install chef 12 client now.

Also, is there a way to set the ssl_verify_mode with the machine resource?

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Thanks,

Mark

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Justin Dossey

Practice Owner

New Context Services, Inc