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chef-infraknife
sebastus
sebastus

Reputation: 360

Running Knife with --node-name tries to authenticate with that node_name

The docs for knife say that --node-name is the name of the node to be configured (added to server list of nodes). When I put in "node2", I get a message:

Chef encountered an error attempting to load the node data for "node2"

When I use my chef user name it works. But then my node in the server list of nodes is the user name as well.

I'm missing something pretty basic - can someone help me understand what's going on?

Here's the command I'm using:

# Fails
knife bootstrap myfqdn:port --ssh-user myrootname --ssh-password mypassword --sudo --use-sudo-password --node-name node2 --run-list 'myrunlist'

# works, sort of
knife bootstrap myfqdn:port --ssh-user myrootname --ssh-password mypassword --sudo --use-sudo-password --node-name mychefusername --run-list 'myrunlist'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 456

Answers (2)

Akshay Nayak
Akshay Nayak

Reputation: 1

Node names must be unique when specified within the client.rb or knife.rb file wherever you are doing so. This will ensure that the chef-server has only one instance with that particular node name and doesn't hold several instances within the chef-server by the same name. So try changing the node-name and try running this. This should work.

Hope this helps,

Regards

Akshay

Upvotes: 0

Mitesh
Mitesh

Reputation: 11

I think "node2" is already registered in your Chef-Server. Node Name must be unique.

Upvotes: 1

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