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TyMac
TyMac

Reputation: 803

Need to disable chef-client on Windows Chef

I have a need to provision Windows VMs with knife and run the initial configuration once with Chef... but have the chef-client disabled after that. Unfortunately setting the interval and task variables to 0 in the default.rb attributes file in the chef-client cookbook do not seem to work:

# log_file has no effect when using runit
default['chef_client']['log_file']    = 'client.log'
default['chef_client']['interval']    = '0'
default['chef_client']['splay']       = '0'
default['chef_client']['conf_dir']    = '/etc/chef'
default['chef_client']['bin']         = '/usr/bin/chef-client'

...

# Configuration for Windows scheduled task
default['chef_client']['task']['frequency'] = 'minute'
default['chef_client']['task']['frequency_modifier'] = node['chef_client']      ['interval'].to_i / 0
default['chef_client']['task']['user'] = 'SYSTEM'
default['chef_client']['task']['password'] = nil # Password is only required for none system users

Any ideas on what I need to do?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1250

Answers (2)

TyMac
TyMac

Reputation: 803

What I ended up doing was altering the windows_service.rb recipe to disable the service:

service 'chef-client' do
action [:disable, :stop]
end

coderanger's answer is probably ok but this will allow an easier answer to events that might need the client to be easily ran in the future if needed.

Upvotes: 0

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54181

Just don't run the chef-client recipe at all.

Upvotes: 0

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