[chef] Re: Re: Re: portable chef client

[Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten < >]

Sounds like you're wanting a statically built copy of ruby.

The issue you're seeing is because the operating system's dynamic linker hasn't been updated to look for library objects in chef-client's lib path. Normally this would happen during package installation.

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~j

On Jun 8, 2015, at 01:32, Naresh < "> > wrote:

Hi Ranjib,

By portable I meant just copying the chef folder. I want to avoid installing chef-client if possible.  On Windows, I can take the chef-client install folder, copy that to other location or machine and run the chef-client. That doesn't work on linux. I see the following error:

../embedded/bin/ruby: error while loading shared libraries: libruby.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Thanks

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Ranjib Dey < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

omnibus installers are fairly portable as long as your platforms are same. how are you generating the installers? or how are you packaging your app+ chef. I use fpm to repackage omnibus chef with additional gems (like ruby-lxc) and then use chef-client in localmode (which is pretty much same as solo). 

What error you are seeing?

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Naresh < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi everybody,

We are trying to use chef-solo to install our application on linux. We plan to distribute chef (chef-client install folder) along with our application files and when user runs an install script, chef-solo will be invoked. End-user need not know that we are using chef-solo. I have copied chef folder on a different machine and tried to run a simple recipe with no success. 

Have any of you tried such thing? Is there a portable chef-client? 

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Regards
Naresh

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Regards
Naresh