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Migrating from Chef Client version 13 to 15
Syntax changes There are breaking changes between Chef Client version 13 and the newer versions, make sure you update your Chef cookbooks to make them work with the new version of the Chef Client. Resource Since version Old syntax New syntax Notes logger Client 14.0 keyword, cannot use it as a variable or parameter name …
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Computer failed to join domain from its current workgroup ‘WORKGROUP’ with following error message: The system cannot open the device or file specified.
When you use PowerShell to join a Windows server to the domain make sure the -OUPath is correct. Computer failed to join domain from its current workgroup ‘WORKGROUP’ with following error message: The system cannot open the device or file specified. In this case we wanted to place the joined computers in the Computers folder, …
Computer ‘…’ failed to join domain. The value provided as the current password is incorrect.
Computer ‘…’ failed to join domain ‘…’ from its current workgroup ‘WORKGROUP’ with following error message: Unable to update the password. The value provided as the current password is incorrect. If you can join the computer to a domain using the UI, but the PowerShell script fails with the error message above, make sure you …
Set the environment name in Chef Test Kitchen
To specify the environment name in the .kitchen.yml file Create a JSON environment file. Chef Zero used by Test Kitchen does not understand YAML or Ruby, we need to use JSON. In your cookbook’s root directory create a directory for environment files Create the myenv.json environment file in the environments directory. Specify the environment name …
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Using Makefiles
Makefiles are great to self-document frequently executed commands in a repository. They provide easy access to the bash code by easy to remember tags. Formatting Only tabs are allowed to indent lines. The indentation groups the commands under the rules. Set Bash as the shell On some systems Bash is not the default shell when …
DevOps Engineering part 1. (Ubuntu server) – Install the DevOps development tools on Ubuntu server
Ubuntu server does not have a user interface, we will use the terminal to install the DevOps tools. Terraform On your workstation open a web browser and navigate to https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html to get the version of the latest Terraform release. Substitute the x.x.x with the latest version AWS CLI To install AWS CLI with the package …
Build a Docker container image for your application
Create the image A Docker container image is one of the best formats to distribute your application. The container provides an immutable environment, so the application runs the same way on your workstation and on any server. We will use the simple Go application we have created in the Your first Go application post. In …
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Error: Failed to instantiate provider “aws” to obtain schema: Incompatible API version with plugin. Plugin version: 4, Client versions: [5]
When a provider has been updated outside of Terraform, (for example in Terraformer) Terraform can get out of sync with that provider version. terraform init works, but terraform plan throws the error message: Error: Failed to instantiate provider “aws” to obtain schema: Incompatible API version with plugin. Plugin version: 4, Client versions: [5] To update …
ERROR: column “…” does not exist
PostgreSQL internally converts all column and table names to lowercase when executing the SQL query. If the column or table name contains uppercase letters, we need to use double quotes to be able to reference them. When we get the error message ERROR: column “username” does not exist select * from public.”AspNetUsers” where UserName = …