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In this exercise we will create a Chef cookbook for a corporation. It will be robust and include all the necessary elements to be used in a large enterprise. If your company already has established standards, as you progress with this tutorial, copy the appropriate file from an existing cookbook. If this is the first …
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When you test your cookbook in Chef Test Kitchen and get the following error, delete the “Policyfile.rb” from your Chef cookbook directory. $$$$$$ You must set your run_list in your policyfile instead of kitchen config. The run_list your config will be ignored. $$$$$$ Ignored run_list: [“recipe[…::…]”] Preparing dna.json Exporting cookbook dependencies from Policyfile /tmp/… Error: Invalid …
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When Berkshelf in the Chef Test Kitchen cannot resolve the cookbook dependencies, it displays the following error message during converge: Unable to satisfy the following requirements To help Berks to start a fresh calculation, delete the Berksfile.lock file and enter the following into the command window: berks install
In the first part of the series, Beginner’s Guide to DevOps Engineering Part 1. we have already installed the DevOps development tools. Create and test your first cookbook in 5 minutes Set up the Chef working folder Create a folder for the Chef development on Mac ~/Chef on Windows C:\Chef In the Chef folder create a sub-folder …
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When you install a new version of ChefDK and try to run Test Kitchen converge you may get the following error message >>>>>> ——Exception——- >>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed >>>>>> Message: Failed to complete #create action: [SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed To solve the problem add the following to the Windows …
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When you install the new version of ChefDK you may get the following error message when you try to run Test Kitchen !!!!!! The `winrm` gem is missing and must be installed or cannot be properly activated. Run `gem install winrm –version ‘[“~> 1.6”]’` or add the following to your Gemfile if you are using …
When you install a new version of ChefDK and try to run Test Kitchen the following error message may appear !!!!!! The `berkshelf’ gem is missing and must be installed or cannot be properly activated. Run `gem install berkshelf` or add the following to your Gemfile if you are using Bundler: `gem ‘berkshelf’`. To reinstall …
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After installing a new version of ChefDK you may get the following error message when you try to run Test Kitchen: Message: Could not load the ‘ec2’ driver from the load path. Please ensure that your driver is installed as a gem or included in your Gemfile if using Bundler. To install the EC2 driver …
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You may get the following error when you try to run Test Kitchen after installing the latest version of ChefDK: $ kitchen C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require’: cannot load such file — dl/import (LoadError) from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require’ from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/net-ssh-2.9.2/lib/net/ssh/authentication/pageant.rb:1:in `<top (required)>’ from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require’ from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require’ from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/net-ssh-2.9.2/lib/net/ssh/authentication/agent/socket.rb:5:in `<top (required)>’ from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require’ from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require’ from …
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