Sean Walberg swalberg

VMware and Chef tools

Chef and VMware are a natural pairing and there are several tools available to enhance the integration.

Knife is a command-line tool that provides an interface between a local chef-repo and the Chef server and allows you to manipulate objects on the Chef server. Knife plugin allows your computer to talk to a 3rd party systems like vSphere or vRA. A plugin can create a VM in vSphere and then bootstrap it with Chef, for example, or it can expose your vRa catalog to your workstation so you don't need to use a GUI.

The following are the main interfaces with VMware and Chef our "knife" plugins.

	sean~/play/visionTest (master)$ ./gradlew build --stacktrace

	FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

	* What went wrong:
	A problem occurred configuring root project 'visionTest'.
	> Failed to notify project evaluation listener.
	> jaci.gradle.deploy.artifact.ArtifactsExtension.artifact(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Class;Lgroovy/lang/Closure;)Ljaci/gradle/deploy/artifact/Artifact;

	* Try:

	export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=1
	export GIT_PS1_SHOWSTASHSTATE=1
	export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=1
	export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=1
	# Update to point to wherever they're installed
	. /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-prompt.sh
	. /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash
	PS1="\[$BLUE\]\u\[$YELLOW\]\[$YELLOW\]\w\[\033[m\]\[$MAGENTA\]\$(__git_ps1)\[$WHITE\]\$ "

	<html><head>
	<title>SourceForge</title>
	<!-- <script src="/js/jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script> -->
	<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>
	<script src="https://sourceforge.net/js/mirrors.js"></script>
	<script src="/js/sf.js"></script>
	<script>
	var DR_loc = DR_parse_hash_url();
	if (DR_loc) {
	DR_sf_main(DR_loc);

	cd C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\local\Temp\kitchen
	C:\opscode\chef\embedded\bin\gem install chef-zero
	C:\opscode\chef\embedded\bin\chef-zero -d # or run this in another window with out -d
	knife cookbook upload -a -c client.rb
	C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\local\Temp\kitchen> knife cookbook upload -a -c client.rb -k .\client.pem -s http://localhost:8889 -o .
	chef-shell -z -c client.rb -o '<YOUR RECIPE>'

	tell application "System Events"
	tell application "Slack" to activate
	key code 18 using {command down}
	delay 1
	keystroke "/status clear"
	delay 0.5
	key code 36
	delay 0.3
	keystroke "/away "
	delay 0.5

	function _ssh_completion() {
	perl -ne 'print "$1 " if /^Host (.+)$/' ~/.ssh/config
	}
	complete -W "$(_ssh_completion)" ssh

	Recipe: aspera::users
	* chef_gem[vault] action install (up to date)
	* aspera_user[sea] action create

	- create sea
	- set unix_user to "sea"

	- create sea
	- set password to "initial"failure
	Missing User/Group data: User sea does not appear to exist on the computer (User not found)

	[{"pid":78038,"tid":1547,"ts":135999022028,"ph":"X","cat":"toplevel","name":"MessageLoop::RunTask","args":{"src_file":"../../third_party/WebKit/Source/platform/scheduler/base/task_queue_impl.cc","src_func":"PushOntoImmediateIncomingQueueLocked"},"dur":89,"tdur":62,"tts":416345},
	{"pid":78038,"tid":1547,"ts":135999022077,"ph":"X","cat":"toplevel","name":"TaskQueueManager::ProcessTaskFromWorkQueue","args":{"src_file":"../../base/trace_event/trace_log.cc","src_func":"SetEnabled"},"dur":16,"tdur":14,"tts":416370},
	{"pid":78038,"tid":1547,"ts":135999022098,"ph":"X","cat":"toplevel","name":"TaskQueueManager::ProcessTaskFromWorkQueue","args":{"src_file":"../../base/trace_event/trace_log.cc","src_func":"SetEnabled"},"dur":7,"tdur":4,"tts":416391},
	{"pid":78038,"tid":1547,"ts":135999022106,"ph":"X","cat":"toplevel","name":"TaskQueueManager::ProcessTaskFromWorkQueue","args":{"src_file":"../../base/trace_event/trace_log.cc","src_func":"SetEnabled"},"dur":6,"tdur":3,"tts":416399},
	{"pid":78038,"tid":1547,"ts":13600105977