[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Chef Search Again

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 6/16/15 1:32 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> 5. It's vagrant. Chef solo. There is no client.pem file as far as I know.
Chef-solo doesn't have a server to talk to in order to node.save or post 
results to search.  The node.save turns into a NOP transparently in 
chef-solo.  You can go down the road of chef-solo-search but then 
eventually data bags will troll you.  At some point people wind up 
trying to write a stub chef-server for chef-solo to talk to and replace 
all the APIs which is just going to fight with all the special cases of 
chef-solo to make it NOT talk to a server which are littered around the 
codebase.

The correct way forwards is to use chef-zero instead of chef-solo and 
have a normal fully functional chef-client that expects to talk to a 
chef server talking to the chef-zero server.  Otherwise you will 
continue to fight the tool.

+1 on using Chef Server 12 and/or Hosted Chef with Solr 4 which will get 
the required sleep down from a couple minutes to a couple seconds.

You can also use an overrride run list instead of -r to run a recipe 
without updating the run_list.