I am trying to setup my Chef-Zero provisioner to execute the run list from a nodes JSON file. This is what my Vagrantfile looks like.
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
config.vm.box = "ubuntu-14.04_Base_image"
config.vm.hostname = "app_node"
config.omnibus.chef_version = '12.0.3'
config.vm.provision "chef_zero" do |chef|
chef.cookbooks_path = ["../kitchen/cookbooks", "../kitchen/site-cookbooks"]
chef.roles_path = "../kitchen/roles"
chef.data_bags_path = "../kitchen/data_bags"
chef.nodes_path = "../kitchen/nodes"
chef.node_name = "app_node"
end
end
When I run vagrant up, I get the following output from the chef-zero provisioner.
==> default: Running provisioner: chef_zero...
==> default: Detected Chef (latest) is already installed
Generating chef JSON and uploading...
==> default: Warning: Chef run list is empty. This may not be what you want.
==> default: Running chef-zero...
==> default: stdin: is not a tty
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:51+00:00] INFO: Started chef-zero at http://localhost:8889 with repository at /tmp/vagrant-chef/bec99a1a4e96279669bc5bb3140c0f2e, /tmp/vagrant-chef/2cbca02c0b5c49646d765ae1c9c0738f
==> default: One version per cookbook
==> default: data_bags at /tmp/vagrant-chef/72ac2a17a7c339d91d27a954fc49f8c3/data_bags
==> default: nodes at /tmp/vagrant-chef/83a9002a19a985bce4d26b8c9d050540/nodes
==> default: roles at /tmp/vagrant-chef/9cdb44a6dfefce6070b32ff28cb96535/roles
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:51+00:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge...
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:51+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 12.0.3 ***
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:51+00:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 1731
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:57+00:00] INFO: Run List is []
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:57+00:00] INFO: Run List expands to []
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:57+00:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for jira
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:57+00:00] INFO: Running start handlers
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:57+00:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:59+00:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 1.831177529 seconds
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:59+00:00] INFO: Skipping removal of unused files from the cache
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:59+00:00] INFO: Running report handlers
==> default: [2015-01-08T01:19:59+00:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
My question is why was the runlist empty? I specified the nodes directory and the node name in the chef_zero provisioner. The JSON file that specifies the run list for "app_node" exists in the nodes directory and I can see that chef is copying up all the cookbook/nodes/roles files to the server correctly.
I feel like I am missing something here. Any help would be much appreciated. If anything is unclear let me know.
Vagrant's chef_zero provisioner is actually using chef-solo -c solo.rb -j dna.json. Your configuration in nodes is not used other than mounting the directories.
You can workaround this by doing something like this (assumes that nodes/hostname.json is the same name put in config.vm.hostname):
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
config.vm.box = "chef/centos-6.6"
config.vm.hostname = "foobarhost"
VAGRANT_JSON = JSON.parse(Pathname(__FILE__).dirname.join('../../nodes', "#{config.vm.hostname}.json").read)
config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
chef.cookbooks_path = ["../../cookbooks", "../../site-cookbooks"]
chef.roles_path = "../../roles"
chef.data_bags_path = "../../data_bags"
chef.verbose_logging = true
chef.run_list = VAGRANT_JSON.delete('run_list') if VAGRANT_JSON['run_list']
# Add JSON Attributes
chef.json = VAGRANT_JSON
end
end
Note I just use chef_solo, as what's the point of running chef_zero when it really calls chef_solo.