[Fiware-webui] Using the chef server for testing

[Torsten Spieldenner]

Hi,

let's see if I remember all the steps that I have thaken there.

I requested accounts on both chef testserver (130.206.81.105) and chef 
cloud portal (130.206.81.61). I have received separate credentials for 
both and a private key for the user that was created on testserver (.105)

Having created the recipes, I uploaded them to the SVN that is specified 
on the Wikipage. After a while, the recipe appeared under the 
"Cookbooks"-tabs in the chef testserver GUI (.105).

In the testserver GUI (. . .105), I created a node by switching to the 
"Nodes" tab and selecting "Create". For the newly created node, I could 
specify a runlist by dragging-and-dropping recipes from the list of all 
recipes.

Moreover I  created a "Client" in the "Clients" tab the same way. This 
should give you a private key that you can copy to your cloud instance 
and specify in your chef config there. We'll come to this later.

Now I created an instance in the Cloud Portal (. . .61). The image that 
is suggested in the Wiki did not exists, but as Erno pointed out some 
time ago, the "Ubuntu-chef" image worked. I created a security group 
with all necessary ports open (SSH , HTTP ), assigned this, created a 
public IP and connected via SSH. On the cloud instance, I did run knife 
config as given in the Wiki.
  Somehow, specifying the values via knife did not work for me, but I 
could perform configuration by editing the file "client.rb" which is 
located in the /etc/chef folder.

I have entered the following values:

  ssl_verify_mode                :verify_none
  validation_client_name    "chef-validator"
  validation_key                    "/etc/chef/validation.pem"
  client_key                            "/etc/chef/client.pem" [The 
private key which I received for my client that I created on the test 
server]
  chef_server_url                   "https://130.206.81.105"
  node_name                         "[Name of my previously created node]"

When I now run "chef-client", it connects to my specified node and 
executes the run-list that I have assembled in the test-server gui.

I guess that was all I did, and for me, it works.

Hope that helps

Best,
Torsten

Am 10/28/2014 9:29 AM, schrieb "Lasse Öörni":
> Hi,
> just a brief heads-up from Ludo's side: Jonne V. will be taking over the
> remaining packaging activities for Ludo's GE's.
>
> Related to that: we'd appreciate a writeup from someone who successfully
> managed to test their recipes at https://130.206.81.105: what client image
> did you use, and at which point did you need the .pem file received from
> Henar related to your account at 130.206.81.105 etc.
>
> Last time I tried the chef-client refused to connect to the server, citing
> permission problem. The related section on the FIWARE wiki page
>
> (https://forge.fi-ware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/How_to_create_recipes_for_the_GEs)
>
> just states
>
> "Once you have deployed the VM, enter in the VM, and execute chef-client.
> This process will register your VM into the chef-server."
>


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