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During Chef cookbook testing with Test Kitchen only one “converge” action can update the Policyfile.lock.json at a time. If you test multiple recipes in the same cookbook, wait for the “Updating policy lock using /usr/local/bin/chef-cli update” message before starting the next converge otherwise we get the error message: STDOUT: Installing cookbooks from lockSTDERR: Error: Failed …
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When we move an EC2 instance from one subnet to another or to another availability zone the EC2 Metadata Service stops working on the instance. We get the error message: Unable to get IAM security credentials from EC2 Instance Metadata Service. To enable the EC2 Metadata Service again, we need to update the routing configuration …
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When you change the instance type of an AWS RDS instance, the availability zone of the instance has to have available capacity of the selected type. Some older availability zones (us-east-1a) have more old instance types than new types available. If the instance type you selected is not available in the current zone of the …
To terminate the script in case of an error, we can use the “-e” option. When a bash script is “sourced”, called from an alias with a leading dot like my-alias=’. /my-script to execute in the same process, or a function is executed from a terminal window and the script exits on an error, it …
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When the CI/CD pipeline loads dependency cookbooks from GitHub and the kitchen converge process throws the error: Error: Failed to install cookbooks from lockfileReason: (CookbookOmnifetch::NotACookbook) The resource at ‘/…’ does not appear to be a valid cookbook. Does it have a metadata.rb? make sure the remote revisions of the dependency cookbook match in the caller …
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The MacOS comes with an old version of Python 2. For new software development Python 3 is the recommended version. Replacing the original Python 2 with Python 3 can cause instability in the MacOS. There are multiple ways to install Python 3 and keep Python 2 pn the Mac. This is the most recommended process: …
Download iTerm2 from https://www.iterm2.com/downloads.html Double click the downloaded ZIP file to extract the application, Move the iTerm application to Applications. iTerm2 configuration Install Oh My Zsh Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Install it withsh -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)” More info at https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh Use .bashrc for configuration When you start iTerm, it reads …
If the chef update and chef push commands always regenerate the Policyfile.lock.json file and the revision_id in it, make sure the Chef cookbook contains the chefignore file and it also references all possible Policyfile lock files: If a cookbook file changes, a new Policyfile.lock.json is generated during chef push. chef update and chef push always check …
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When we launch a test instance with Chef Test Kitchen, we may get the error message: —–> Starting Test Kitchen (…)—–> Creating …——Exception——->>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed>>>>>> Message: 1 actions failed.>>>>>> Failed to complete #create action: [undefined method `[]’ for nil:NilClass] on …>>>>>> ———————->>>>>> Please see .kitchen/logs/kitchen.log for more details>>>>>> Also try running kitchen diagnose –all for …
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When you use sed to insert a template file into another file with the command and get the error message extra characters at the end of n command Make sure the template file supplied in $1 does not have an empty line at the top.