Can I use Chef-Solo to provision a server created with knife-eucalyptus

Question

I am able to create a new server using knife-eucalyptus like so:

knife euca server create

The server gets created but provisioning fails with the following message:

"ERROR: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /etc/chef/validation.pem"

This is understandable as I presume it is trying to use Chef Server for provisioning. This is the problem. I want to use Chef Solo to provision this server (at least for now).

Is there some way to instruct knife-eucalyptus to provision new servers with Chef Solo?

Answer 1

I put in a patch to Knife EC2 that lets it work with Eucalyptus: https://github.com/viglesiasce/knife-ec2

I have used this to provision and maintain running instances without issues over the last few months. I need to submit the PR soon to get it into mainline.

Configuration required is the following in knife.rb:

knife[:region] = 'eucalyptus'
knife[:endpoint] = ENV['EC2_URL']
knife[:aws_access_key_id] = ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY']
knife[:aws_secret_access_key] = ENV['AWS_SECRET_KEY']

Then you can source your Eucalyptus credentials and start deploying with "knife ec2 create".

Edit: I commented on the original pull request here: https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2/pull/134