[chef] Chef 11.8 API - 403 "Forbidden" (Net::HTTPServerException)

[Rafał Radecki < >]

Hi All :)

I am currently trying to delete nodes through API once they will be terminated (autoscaling instances in AWS). 

Code:

require 'chef'

Chef::Config.from_file('/etc/chef/client.rb')

client_name = ENV['HOSTNAME']

rest = Chef::REST.new(Chef::Config[:chef_server_url],client_name)

node_name = 'x'

node_deleted = rest.get_rest("/nodes/" + node_name)

node_deleted.destroy

puts "deleted node: " + node_name

client_deleted = rest.get_rest("/clients/" + node_name)

client_deleted.destroy

puts "deleted client: " + node_name

During invocation I get:

/opt/chef-server/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:2633:in `error!': 403 "Forbidden" (Net::HTTPServerException)

I am using chef open source 11.8 and I understand that I can:

1) change in the web interface the client to admin=true?

2) add some permissions for the client so that he will be able to delete nodes from /nodes endpoint?

1) is a manual action and I would like to automate this. For chef 11.8 actions such as chef-server-ctl user-edit (https://docs.chef.io/ctl_chef_server.html) are not available. Is there an automated way to change admin=false to admin=true for the node?

2) I did not manage to find any usable docs about this.

Are there any other solutions? Can anyone help with 1) or 2)?

Thanks!

BR,

Rafal.