[Fiware-webui] Using the chef server for testing

Torsten Spieldenner torsten.spieldenner at dfki.de
Wed Oct 29 13:52:35 CET 2014


Hello,

I wrote an email directly to Henar for access to both chef-server and 
cloud portal. But I would assume that in the meanwhile account requests 
can also be done via a JIRA ticket.

Best,
Torsten



Am 10/29/2014 1:47 PM, schrieb 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 <mailto: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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