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sslamazon-ec2chef-infraknife
Olly W
Olly W

Reputation: 367

SSL validation failure - knife ec2 with chef 12

Trying to create an aws server using 'knife ec2' and bootstrap-version 12 but failing on SSL validation.

'SSL Validation failure connecting to host'

It seems a solution would be to run 'knife ssl fetch' to get the server ssl certificate but I cant work out exactly how or when to run this

(All other setup seems ok, EC2 instance is created, ssh works, chef 12 downloaded, error is on creation of new client identity using validator key)

10.x.x.x Starting Chef Client, version 12.0.3
10.x.x.x Creating a new client identity for test_create using the validator key.
10.x.x.x [2015-01-21T18:22:48+00:00] ERROR: SSL Validation failure connecting to host: chef.xxxx - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed
10.x.x.x 
10.x.x.x ================================================================================
10.x.x.x Chef encountered an error attempting to create the client "test_create"
10.x.x.x ================================================================================
10.x.x.x

Upvotes: 0

Views: 844

Answers (2)

dspatil
dspatil

Reputation: 337

Just run 'knife ssl fetch'....

Upvotes: 1

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54181

As you said, you use knife ssl to fix this. Please see https://www.chef.io/blog/2013/10/31/ssl-certificate-validation-in-chef/ for a more detailed walkthrough of the process.

Upvotes: 0

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