Chef

Upload the cookbook

From the bastion:

knife cookbook upload <insert cookbook name> -d

Troubleshooting the cookbook run

On the ec2 instance:

sudo chef-client -j /etc/chef/init.json

Troubleshooting steps:

• Failure can be confirmed by ssh’ing into bastion and running:

  knife node list | grep <instance_id>
  

• once in the node, run

  sudo chef-client -j /etc/chef/init.json
  

  to pull the latest configuration/cookbook. Troubleshoot the error that comes up in the stacktrace when the chef-client runs and fix it to resolve the chef-client failure.

Alternatively:

sudo tail /var/log/chef/client.log

Chef Commands

To list the nodes:

knife node list

To display details of one node:

knife node show _node_name_

Chef Server Status

knife status

Chef Data Bags

knife data bag list

knife data bag show _bag_name_