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chef-infrachef-recipecookbook
ninesalt
ninesalt

Reputation: 4354

Errors running cookbooks with chef-client

I'm trying to run a cookbook using chef-client by using "chef-apply default.rb" (where default.rb is the default recipe of the cookbook) but I keep getting the same error regardless of the cookbook I'm trying. Is what i'm doing incorrect? Is there another way to execute a single cookbook?

The errors I'm getting are:

[2016-07-20T11:00:57+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[2016-07-20T11:00:57+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report
[2016-07-20T11:00:57+00:00] FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

Upvotes: 0

Views: 383

Answers (1)

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54249

As Tensibai mentioned, chef-apply is for training and sometimes one-off management scripts. It has no concept of "cookbooks". The likely issue is that chef-apply is not running the attributes files (because it can't) so expected default values aren't present in the recipe code.

tl;dr stop using chef-apply. You probably want chef-solo.

Upvotes: 1

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