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I want to edit ec2 node's node_data using a knife node command. I can manually do it by using below command. knife node edit NODE_NAME It will generate a json which I need to edit. "name": "NODE-1", 3 "chef_environment": "test", 4 "normal": { 5 "node_data": { 6 "version": "23690ecc9c572e47db242bfad1296388f91da1e9", 7 "depot_path": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/builds/", 8 "source_repo": "softwares/" 9 }, 10 "tags": [ 11 12 ] 13 }, 14 "run_list": [ 15 "role[my-role]" 16 ] 17 } I want to edit node_data in that json. If I had to edit run_list the there is a command for that knife node run_list add

I'm new to Chef and have been using Test Kitchen to test the validity of my cookbooks, which works great. Now I'm trying to ensure that environment-specific attributes are correct on production nodes prior to running Chef initially. These would be defined in a role. For example, I may have recipes that converge using a Vagrant box with dev settings, which validates the cookbook. I want to be able to test that a production node's role. I think I want these tests as the source of truth describing my environment. Looking at Test Kitchen's documentation, this seems beyond its scope. Is my

When I try to start chef-solr as service it's failing with the following error # service chef-solr start Starting chef-solr: /usr/bin/env: ruby_noexec_wrapper: No such file or directory [FAILED] But when I run it manually from command line it's running successfully # chef-solr -d -c /etc/chef/solr.rb -L /var/log/chef/solr.log -P /var/run/chef/solr.pid # echo $? 0 # ps -ef | grep chef root 2691 1 12 04:19 ? 00:00:01 java -Xmx256M -Xms256M -Dsolr.data.dir=/var/lib/chef/solr/data -Dsolr.solr.home=/var/lib/chef/solr/home -jar /var/lib/chef/solr/jetty/start.jar Here is my rvm info # rvm info ruby-1

I'm developing a cookbook to deploy a simple ROR application. I write an app_helper.rb and put it into the libraries directory of my cookbook, here is the content: module AppHelper def self.find_gem if File.exists?("/usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm") return `/usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm default exec which gem`.chomp else return "/usr/bin/gem" end end end In the recipes/default.rb, I mix in the above module into Chef::Recipe class class Chef::Recipe include AppHelper end As you know, the find_gem function can be called from anywhere of the recipe. when I'm trying to use the find_gem function in my ruby_block

I'm writing a Chef recipe to install our application code and execute it. The recipe needs to be particular about the directory this code ends up in (for running templates, setting log forwarding etc.). Thus the directory itself pops up in a lot of places in different recipes. I am trying to fetch/define a variable so I can re-use it in my resource block with string interpolation. This is pretty straightforward: home = node['etc']['passwd'][node['nodejs']['user']]['dir'] With an example usage being to run npm install while telling it to plunk the repo downloads in the home directory, like this

I use Vagrant to spawn a standard "precise32" box and provision it with Chef so I can test my Node.js code on Linux when I work on a Windows machine. This works fine. I also have this bash command so it auto installs my npm modules: bash "install npm modules" do code <<-EOH su -l vagrant -c "cd /vagrant && npm install" EOH end This also works fine except that I never see the console output if it completes successfully. But I'd like to see it so we can visually monitor what is going on. This is not specific to npm. I see this similar question with no concrete answers: Vagrant - how to print