[chef] Re: Re: Upgrading from chef 11 to 12

[Phil Dibowitz < >]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 06:52:52PM -0800, Daniel DeLeo wrote:
> On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Taylor Price wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >  
> > I'm looking to upgrade my chef server to chef 12, and I want to get 
> > opinions on the transition. Am I going to have any issues upgrading?
> >  
> > Are there any compatability issues with cookbooks written with chef 11 in 
> > mind?  
> FYI, you don’t have to upgrade your clients and server in lockstep. 11.x 
> clients work with 12.x server and vice versa.

That's not... ENTIRELY true. You need a config change on EC11 in order for
it to accept Chef 12 clients... It's not clear of the OP was using OSC11 or
EC11.

The config change is:

  lb['chef_max_version'] = 12

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