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Using Chef Solo to provision a Windows EC2 instance and bootstrap it

I'm trying to automate our CI process for a couple of .NET apps, and in a perfect world I'd like to spin up a Windows EC2 instance for each, bootstrap the instance to install Chef Solo and then execute a Chef recipe to install some dependencies and…
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Merging Chef attribute arrays

Let's say I have two cookbooks, Foo and Bar. In cookbook Foo, attributes/default.rb contains the following: default[:test] = [{:baz => 'A', :qux => 'B'}] In cookbook B, I'd like to expand that array with another object (i.e. merge the two arrays):…
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Running `apt-get upgrade` with Chef Solo

I'm using Chef Solo to provision a Vagrant VM based on Opscode's "Bento" box for Ubuntu 12.04. When it's done provisioning and I SSH in for the first time, the MOTD tells me there are packages and security updates. I then run sudo apt-get upgrade…
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restarting php5-fpm on ubuntu 14.04 with chef

I have this in my chef recipe: service 'php5-fpm' do supports :restart => true action [ :enable, :start ] end However my recipe now barfs in Ubuntu 14.04, as "/etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart" does not work on Ubuntu 14.04 (it returns with 1 and…
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A chef recipe to install ruby 1.9.3 system wide without rvm nor rbenv

I'm looking for an Opscode Chef cookbook that installs system-wide Ruby version 1.9.3, patch-level latest at the time of the run_list execution. Have done some research and there is a Brightbox PPA available at least for Ubuntu flavors. I wonder if…
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Prevent chef recipe from executing previously executed action?

I have a simple recipe like the following, and currently I am using a local file to indicate if the command has been run or not execute "test" do command "sh test.sh && touch /opt/myapp/done.log" only_if…
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How to find all local user accounts in chef

Using opscode chef, is there a way to find or loop over all user accounts? I need to create a configuration file in each users home directory. I do not want to loop over any directory structure for this.
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Chef dynamic inventory like Ansible?

In Ansible, I can use a shell script to provide a list of hosts to be configured, in Chef, I knew Chef Server provide the similar features. However, I don't want to install a heavy server to provide just this feature, are there any workaround so I…
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AWS CloudFormation templates and a bash init script

Up until now I've been launching EC2 instances manually, copying over a bash script that downloads my chef + chef artifacts, and calls chef-solo to provision an instance. A former AWS engineer in the company had at one point created CF templates;…
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Any way to re-run the chef-solo provisioner on a packer built machine?

I'm building VirtualBox machines using Packer and the chef-solo provisioner. Is there a way to re-run chef from within the VM as recipes are updated without needing to re-run packer build?
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Chef node.name not being set

What I am working with: Debian Wheezy 7.6 Chef: 11.14.6 Up to this point, I have always used node.name to set the hostname of an instance. Example: { "name": "web-01", "chef_environment": "_default", "normal": { "tags": [ ] }, …
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Can I use Chef-Solo to provision a server created with knife-eucalyptus

I am able to create a new server using knife-eucalyptus like so: knife euca server create The server gets created but provisioning fails with the following message: "ERROR: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /etc/chef/validation.pem" This…
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How to install Redis with Chef?

I am trying to install Redis with Chef. I would think, it's easy, since I only want to have the default configuration. So, I add to a Berksfile: site :opscode cookbook 'apt' cookbook 'node' cookbook 'rvm', :git =>…
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chef deploy start service and restart service in sequence

Chef stop and start service in sequence and would like to ask different procedure. Step 1: framework bootstrap to jboss service bash "bootstrap application" do code <<-EOF ant bootstrap EOF end Step 2: then start jboss service "jboss"…
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