[chef] Re: Knife Zero Bad URI Error

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Andy Theuninck wrote:

> I'm trying to follow the chef-zero tutorial posted here:
> https://www.chef.io/blog/2013/10/31/chef-client-z-from-zero-to-chef-in-8-5-seconds/
> 
> I'm running chef 12.0.3 on windows via the chefdk installer.
> 
> The various chef-client -z commands all work exactly as described in
> the document. Running chef-client -z seems to automatically create a
> "nodes" directory in the current working directory with a
> <hostname>.json file describing the host. The "knife node list -z"
> command returns the computer's hostname. But the knife run_list add
> command errors out like this:
> 
> PS> knife node run_list add -z recipe[helloworld]
> WARNING: No knife configuration file found
> ERROR: URI::InvalidURIError: bad URI(is not URI?):
> http://localhost:8889/nodes/recipe[helloworld]

This looks like a bug in the run_list add command that is unrelated to 
chef-zero/local mode
 
> 
> The article seems to be missing some basic information about how how
> chef-client -z and knife -z interact. It appears I need to someone
> make chef-client run its built-in server in the background, but I
> can't tell how to do that. chef-zero has a start_background option,
> but chef-client -z does not (or at least its not documented here
> https://docs.chef.io/ctl_chef_client.html). The relationship between
> chef-zero and chef-client -z is also unclear.

knife -z and chef-client -z run chef-zero in a background thread. IIRC the 
filesystem paths for different chef data types will be assumed to be relative 
to your current working directory unless you configure chef/knife otherwise. 
Off the top of my head, I think `chef_repo_path` is the option that controls 
this, but you should double check the docs.
 
> 
> I'm having no luck googling any of this stuff. Any hints on what basic
> architectural pieces I'm not understanding would be helpful.

HTH,

-- 
Daniel DeLeo