A cookbook is the fundamental unit of configuration and policy distribution in Chef.
Questions tagged [cookbook]
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Ubuntu chef cookbook recipe condition need it
I have to following lines:
execute "hostname -f >> /etc/mail/local-host-names" do
command "hostname -f >> /etc/mail/local-host-names"
end
I would like to add a condition, in case the hostname already exists in the file and the command should not…
VGM
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in windows package resource of cookbook -installer_type showing error
While am executing this package resource in a cookbook, it shows the following error:
windows_package 'PuTTY version 0.60' do
source 'http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.60-installer.exe'
installer_type :inno
action…
indra
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Cannot deploy nodejs application with error "NoMethodError: undefined method `owner' for Chef::Resource::DeployRevision"
I cannot deploy a nodejs app with application & application_nodejs cookbook.
My environment :
Chef 11.12.2
Application cookbook : 4.1.4
Application_nodejs cookbook : 2.0.1
Ubuntu : 12.04 LTS
Full error :
"[2014-06-02T10:51:51+00:00] INFO:…
PhungLe
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How to test final Chef server configuration with the help of community cookbooks?
I saw most of the community cookbooks have tests. As I read some articles those tests can be, simply put, described as unit tests (does the cookbook does what it says?) and integration tests (does it work on the OS?).
I setup a LAMP virtual…
tsusanka
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Error Provisioning Tomcat Cookbook on `restart`
Using test-kitchen, my provisioning/converging fails when running the opscode/tomcat
cookbook (please see below).
.kitchen.yml
'tomcat': {
'keytool': '/usr/bin/keytool',
'home': '/some/path/tomcat'
…
Kevin Meredith
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cakephp blog tutorial error whith mysql now()
I am triing the blog tutorial from the cookbook
CREATE TABLE posts (
id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
title VARCHAR(50),
body TEXT,
created DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
modified DATETIME DEFAULT NULL
);
But when I insert the values that he…
MahmoudSenSei
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knife ec2 server create returning 403 Forbidden
I'm trying to install tomcat cookbook on an AWS instance, but is experiencing an error as below:
Role tomcat.rb:
name 'tomcat'
description 'A single tomcat server'
run_list(
'recipe[tomcat]'
)
Running:
knife ec2 server create --availability-zone…
Tiago Rolim
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How to run setup activities when using application cookbook?
I am trying to deploy my Rails app using application_ruby cookbook. I need to run a few one-time setup activities (like seeding the database using rake db:seed). These should not be done during subsequent chef runs. What's the right way to define…
Emil
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How run multiple instance of mongodb on the same node using mongodb cookbook?
I am using the mongodb cookbook from edelight/chef-mongodb repo to install multiple instance of mongodb on the same node (OS System: Ubuntu 12.04), but when I follow the file instructions to obtain this goal I can't derive the result expected.
My…
enrique-carbonell
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store shell command output to ruby variable or chef
Hi I want to store output of a shell command into chef variable. I have seen some way but not able to get how to do it.
Here is what I have tried so far
current_version = `#{node['kayako_nginx']['prefix']}/sbin/nginx -v | grep -Po…
user3382084
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apache2 Chef cookbook start failure
I'm trying to use Chef to create a local virtual host and for that I had added the "recipe[apache2]" recipe in my runlist and it worked great until I also added another recipe in the runlist that includes the default apache2 recipe. Now, even if I…
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Chef Cookbook: service is not starting
I have a problem with my JBoss-cookbook, the service is created correctly in /etc/init.d and can be started/stopped/restarted by using service start/stop/restart jboss, but it is not started after Chef finished deploying my infrastructure.
This is…
Sascha Möllering
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Cookbook_file is not copying resource
I'm trying to copy a file that's included with a cookbook.
This doesn't seem to be working:
cookbook_file node[:confluence][:mysql_jar] do
path "#{node[:confluence][:install_path]}/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/"
action :create_if_missing
end
I've…
Tim Nuwin
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chef couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding `~'
When my chef-client runs in intervals it raises this error and just quits without syncing any cookbooks. But it work in my prompt if I manually invoke it. Any idea how to fix it?
[2014-02-26T11:58:12+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to…
user88975
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chef cookbook not starting the service in bootstrap
I am trying to install a binary and start the service. When I try to do that while I bootstrap the node, it just install the binary and never start the service. Any idea?
bash "install_package" do
cwd "/tmp/abcd"
user "root"
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