How to control the version of Chef that Vagrant uses to provision VMs?
Solution 1
Using the Vagrant plugin vagrant-omnibus worked great for me:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus
You can then simply configure your chef version in the Vagrantfile before doing the provisioning:
config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest
You can also specify a specific version:
config.omnibus.chef_version = '11.6.0'
Solution 2
Add the lines
config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => 'apt-get install build-essential ruby1.9.1-dev --no-upgrade --yes'
config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "gem install chef --version 11.4.2 --no-rdoc --no-ri --conservative"
to your Vagrantfile before your config.vm.provision :chef_solo
block.
props to hauraki's comment on http://dougireton.com/blog/2012/12/23/automatically-upgrading-chef-client-on-vagrant-up/
edited to include Jason Mayfield's comment. Make sure and give him an upvote too. I added --no-upgrade
to speed things up and match the --conservative
on the second line. You could instead do what Jason did, and remove both the --no-upgrade
and --conservative
.
edited to include suggested edit by anonymous user228653
Solution 3
Rebuild the base box. First, bring it up without provisioning and SSH to it.
vagrant up --no-provision
vagrant ssh
Then, perform the commands you need to update the box. This can include updating Chef and Ruby. Optionally, update the packages for the OS, etc. You should clean up the box of everything that isn't required, such as downloaded package files or caches.
For example, I use the Opscode Omnibus Full Stack Installer for Chef in my Vagrant boxes (originally built with VeeWee), and I update the packages, too.
sudo dpkg --purge chef chef-full
sudo true && curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt-get update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
Don't forget to "zero" the disk to reduce the size.
# a bunch of commands like gem install chef, apt-get upgrade, whatever
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/EMPTY bs=1M
sudo rm /EMPTY
exit
Then, package the box up and add it to your Vagrant environment for use.
vagrant package
vagrant box add mynewlucid32 package.box
If you want to use the same box name, you'll need to remove the existing box (~/.vagrant.d/boxes/BOXNAME) first.
Solution 4
There are a number of options you can specify when using Chef for provisioning. One of these is version
, which allows you to specify the Chef version you want.
For example, see the chef.version
line in this extract from a Vagrantfile
of mine:
config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
chef.version = "10.14.2"
chef.cookbooks_path = "cookbooks"
chef.add_recipe("vagrant_main")
end
Solution 5
I am unable to post comments on answers, but I wanted to add a note to Bryan Larsen's answer above. In order to get his provisioning command to work, I needed to add a line before it to be able to build the gem native extensions during install of the new Chef version. Therefore, it became:
config.vm.provision :shell, inline: 'apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev'
config.vm.provision :shell, inline: 'gem install chef --version 11.4.4 --no-rdoc --no-ri'
This was on Ubuntu 13.04, in case that matters to anyone.
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Updated on June 05, 2022Comments
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Steve Bennett almost 2 years
A current Chef recipe isn't running because of a bug in version 0.10.10. How can I upgrade the version of Chef that Vagrant uses, to 0.10.12?
I don't want to just update it for the current instance of the VM - I keep destroying and rebuilding those. Do I need to change something in the Vagrant base box, or something in my (physical) system's installation?
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StephenKing over 11 yearsYou can find this and a few more commands in a postinstall.sh script here: gist.github.com/1052287
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pdeschen about 11 yearsFYI, instead of
wget -O - https://opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash
the following is the new recommend procedure.sudo true && curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash
The former may lead to "unable to retrieve a valid package!' -
Steve Bennett about 11 yearsThanks - not in a position to test this at the moment, but sounds legit. (Note from the blog: Chef actually gets run twice, once to upgrade Chef, then once for real.)
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Bryan Larsen about 11 yearsactually, I think you can pretty much ignore the blog article. That's another solution, but the one that I picked out of the comments is short, sweet and effective.
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Steve Bennett almost 11 yearsNote Jason Mayfield's comment below - if your VM image doesn't come with Ruby, you may need to add this line as well (before the above):
config.vm.provision :shell, inline: 'apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev'
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jimeh over 10 yearsThis should be voted up, and possibly marked as the correct answer rather the older currently marked correct answer.
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coredump over 10 yearsI got to this answer and while it works, using the chef packages may be a cleaner way:
config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => 'wget -q https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/chef_11.6.2-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb -O /tmp/chef_11.6.2-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb'
config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "dpkg -i /tmp/chef_11.6.2-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb"
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Leo Gallucci over 10 yearsYes. This is the correct answer for the thread since it doesn't depend on the box being an Ubuntu machine. For a complete working example check my repo
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Steve Bennett about 10 yearsDoes this work if you replace
:latest
by a specific version? -
ouranos about 10 yearsyes, you can use
config.omnibus.chef_version = '11.6.0'
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Jeetendra Pujari almost 10 yearsI have installed the plugin and added the line before the provision setting
config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
but chef solo is still seems to be using 10.26.0 and throwing the same error -
kikito over 9 yearsBeware that using
:latest
can result in failed deployments - use a stable version (like11.6.0
) if you don't want surprises. -
Mia about 7 yearsIn my opinion this should be marked as the correct answer. Reasons: (1) it is independent either from external plugins and operating systems (2) makes it easier to standardize the development environments of your teams.