[Fiware-webui] Using the chef server for testing

[Cvetan Stefanovski]

Hi Torsten,

>From where do you request accounts for chef-testserver and chef cloud
portal?

Thanks,
-cs

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Philipp Slusallek <
philipp.slusallek at dfki.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Great Torsten! It probably makes sense to put this description
> somewhere, where people can find it. Maybe in this or next weeks minutes
> of our call?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Philipp
>
> Am 28.10.2014 um 10:48 schrieb 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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