Ignasi Barrera created JCLOUDS-286:
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Summary: Use the Omnibus installer to install the Chef client
Key: JCLOUDS-286
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-286
Project: jclouds
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: jclouds-chef, jclouds-scriptbuilder
Affects Versions: 1.6.2
Reporter: Ignasi Barrera
Assignee: Ignasi Barrera
Fix For: 1.7.0
Currently, when running Chef Solo or Chef to bootstrap a node, the Chef client
is manually installed. The installation prices installs Ruby, RubyGems, and the
Chef gems.
Since gems in ruby are automatically updated and the latest version is
downloaded, this procedure may get broken when a (backwards incompatible) new
version of the chef-client gem is published. This can be workarouned by
specifying the versions of Ruby and the Chef gems to install when creating a
ChefContext or building a ChefSolo script, but still isn't string enough.
Opscode released Omnibus, to easily install the chef-client and all its
dependencies. The Omnibus installer will detect the operating system of the
node, and install an appropriate Ruby and RubyGems distribution compatible with
the desired chef-client version, so it should be the preferred way to install
Chef. This will simplify a lot the Chef bootstrap script and reduce
considerably the points where failures can happen.
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