it seems like there is a bug with sync folders, this clears the cache and fixed it for me. (from your project directory) rm .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/synced_folders vagrant reload –provision https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/5199 EDIT: this should be fixed in vagrant 1.7.4
default.nginx_upstreams is the same as default[:nginx_upstreams] and default[‘nginx_upstreams’] – the convention is to use 1 of the latter two. And as you are using strings further, use them here too. The way you init nginx_upstreams in attribute file is the same as doing it this way: default[‘nginx_upstreams’][‘service1’] = [‘service1.server.com’] default[‘nginx_upstreams’][‘service2’] = [‘service2.server.com’] And you don’t … Read more
You can include the apt recipe in the very beginning: include_recipe ‘apt’ this will run the update command.
If you use chef v12.9 and above, Use the apt_repository resource for managing apt repositories. If you use chef lower than v12.8, you can use APT Cookbook provided by Chef Software, Inc. This cookbook provides same LWRP Following is the example usage of the resource: apt_repository “nginx-php” do uri “http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/php5/ubuntu” distribution node[‘lsb’][‘codename’] components [“main”] keyserver … Read more
How to copy single file First way I use file statement to copy file (compile-time check) file “/etc/init.d/someService” do owner ‘root’ group ‘root’ mode 0755 content ::File.open(“/home/someService”).read action :create end here : “/etc/init.d/someService” – target file, “/home/someService” – source file Also you can wrap ::File.open(“/home/someService”).read in lazy block … lazy { ::File.open(“/home/someService”).read } … Second … Read more
From the #chef IRC channel, many people store this kind of data in a data bag on the chef server. For example, a data bag might be ‘aws’, with an item ‘main’, referring to the primary AWS account. Separate keys in the item would be for each particular value. E.g.: { “id”: “main”, “aws_secret_key”: “The … Read more
The Berksfile is Berkshelf specific, while the metadata file is built into Chef. Adding your dependencies to the metadata file allows other applications, like librarian-chef or the supermarket, to read your dependencies as well. Note that Berkshelf reads the dependencies from metadata as well, as long as you add the metadata line to the Berksfile. … Read more
Chef is supported on Windows by Opscode. While we don’t run Windows for any of our infrastructure, we do have developers who are continually improving our Windows support. We also get community contributions, and most of the early phase Windows functionality for Chef was contributed by the community. Important: Opscode now provides an MSI installer … Read more