Vagrant Install chef-client on top of base image

Question

I\'m trying to use Chef to install graphite server and I encountered errors saying that either chef-solo or chef-client was not found on the VM. I\'m using Ubuntu 12.04.amd64 LT

Answer 1

I can recommend the vagrant-omnibus plugin that basically executes the install.sh script for you, if chef is not installed.

Answer 2

I found 2 solutions and both work as expected:

1) Method 1: In your Vagrantfile, add

config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest

This will make sure either chef-solo or chef-client is installed on the VM and is required for chef provisioning. In order to use omnibus plugin, make sure you install the plugin first: vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

2) Method 2: Use config.vm.provision shell inline as mentioned here: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws/issues/19#issuecomment-15487131. In your Vagrantfile, add:

config.vm.provision "shell", path: "utils/tools/install_chef.bash"

The script utils/tools/install_chef.bash that I wrote looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

function error
{
    echo -e "\033[1;31m${1}\033[0m" 1>&2
}

function checkRequireRootUser
{
    if [[ "$(whoami)" != 'root' ]]
    then
        error "ERROR: please run this program as 'root'"
        exit 1
    fi
}

function installChef()
{
    if [[ "$(which chef-client)" = '' ]]
    then
        local chefProfilePath='/etc/profile.d/chef.sh'

        curl -s -L 'https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh' | bash && \
        echo 'export PATH="/opt/chef/embedded/bin:$PATH"' > "${chefProfilePath}" && \
        source "${chefProfilePath}"
    fi
}

function main()
{
    checkRequireRootUser
    installChef
}

main

UPDATE:

if you get following error: Unknown configuration section 'omnibus'. It means you are missing omnibus plugin. To install it, type: vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus