For the past ~6 monthes or so I have been working solely with chef-solo.
There are quite a few helpers for solo out there such as:
- soloist – https://github.com/mkocher/soloist
- knife-solo – https://github.com/matschaffer/knife-solo & a few more.
What kept annoying me for some time is I couldn’t manage databas with knife whilst working in solo mode … ARRRRRRGH!!!
It looked somthing like:
[oper@sandbox chef_repo]$ knife data bag create admins
ERROR: The object you are looking for could not be found
Response: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /data was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at : Port 80</address>
</body></html>
Then came knife-solo_data_bag I am quite embaressed to say ;) I haven’t found this sooner. Now with a totally bogus knife.rb file I can generate / edit / manager databags with knife-solo & knife-solo_data_bag.
Again, hope you find this useful, I know I do ;)
HP