Rabbit – Error: mnesia_unexpectedly_running
Make sure you call sudo rabbitmqctl stop_app before issuing the cluster command. That seemed to be the problem for me. Then make sure you call sudo rabbitmqctl start_app to begin it again 🙂
chef-infra
chef-solo ssl warning when provisioning
This warning was introduced in Chef 11.12.0. See the release notes for details: When ssl_verify_mode is set to :verify_none, Chef will print a warning. Use knife ssl check to test SSL connectivity and then add ssl_verify_mode :verify_peer to your configuration file to fix the warning. Though :verify_none is currently the default, this will be changed … Read more
Default search path for cookbook
Default cookbook path could be set in ~/.chef/knife.rb: … cookbook_path [ ‘~/cookbooks/’, ‘~/base-cookbooks/’] … Also, you could find knife.rb documentation useful.
Change Vagrant port forwarding on a running system
Have you tried using the VirtualBox user interface to add the new port forwarding rule manually? Open VirtualBox and select the running VM, then hit Settings->Network->Port Forwarding and add the new rule to, for example, forward 127.0.0.1:2223 to 10.0.2.15:22. After doing this I was able to connect to my VM on ports 2222 (as per … Read more
How can you use a Chef recipe to set an environment variable?
If you need an env var set strictly within the Chef process, you can use ENV[‘foo’] = ‘bar‘ since it’s a ruby process. If you need to set one for an execute provider, Chef exposes an environment hash: execute ‘Bootstrap the database’ do cwd “#{app_dir}/current” command “#{env_cmd} rake db:drop db:create db:schema:load RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env}” environment ‘HOME’ => … Read more
Chef – ERROR: RuntimeError: Please set EDITOR environment variable
You have to define EDITOR as environment variable. Try export EDITOR=$(which vi) To persist this, add it to ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile.
chef install and update programs from source
First and foremost, if you have the means to host an internal package repository, I generally recommend that you build native packages for your target platform(s), and use the package resource to manage them, rather than building from source. I know that is not always available or feasible, so … The method which you make … Read more
Vagrant provisioning shell vs puppet vs chef
The following article concerns yet another CM tool (ansible), but I think the author does an excellent job of explaining the benefits of transitioning away from shell scripts. http://devopsu.com/blog/ansible-vs-shell-scripts/ quote 1: What really surprised me was the response from some of these more famous devs. They basically said, “This is really cool, but I probably … Read more
Can I modify the ownership for a shared folder in vagrant?
As @StephenKing suggests you can change the options of the whole directory. The relevant function is not documented but the source tells us: # File ‘lib/vagrant/config/vm.rb’, line 53 def share_folder(name, guestpath, hostpath, opts=nil) @shared_folders[name] = { :guestpath => guestpath.to_s, :hostpath => hostpath.to_s, :create => false, :owner => nil, :group => nil, :nfs => false, :transient … Read more