[chef] Re: RE: Chef Push jobs primer/tutorial?

[Mark Anderson < >]

Hi there.

By default we check if the user is part of the group pushy_job_writers, and if that is not present, we check if they are an admin before letting them run the job.

So you will need to create the special group 'pushy_job_writers' and add your jenkins user to that group to get access. To examine the state of jobs you will need 'pushy_job_readers' membership. 

You can use either the manage console or the knife-acl plugin (https://github.com/chef/knife-acl) to create a group and add users.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Fouts, Chris < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I got further along with setting up push job. Now when I try the start a push job on a node, I get this. How can I grant user “jenkins” access to this object? User “Jenkins” is not in the admins group, which is intentional.

 

NOTE: I can do other knife commands.

 

knife job start 'chef-client' mynode.domain.com

ERROR: You authenticated successfully to https://chef-server.domain.com/organizations/arq-dev as jenkins but you are not authorized for this action

Response:  User or client 'jenkins' does not have access to that action on this server.

 

 

From: Fouts, Chris [mailto: " target="_blank"> ]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 4:34 PM
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Subject: [chef] Chef Push jobs primer/tutorial?

 

https://docs.chef.io/install_push_jobs.html

 

I’m trying to use Chef push for orchestrating my node configurations, and the best information I can find is in the above link. However, it’s still lack-luster. Is there a better tutorial somewhere? (I’ve looked)

 

For example, what does item #3 in above link mean?

 

·  Add the following default attributes on all nodes that are managed by Chef push jobs:

"push_jobs": {

  "package_url": "<package_url>",

  "package_checksum": "<checksum>"

}

 

What is <package_url> and <checksum>, or where do I get those?

 

Chris

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