Chef Workstation 2020 Testing

[btm]

Chef Workstation 20.05 needs additional testing before release. Related: #1059

Get the latest build from current and install it: mixlib-install download chef-workstation -c current. Must be at least 20.5.26+.

Ensure all commands run are only coming from the chef workstation install. No other ruby installations, rubygems, or other chef products should be in the PATH.

Test appropriate functionality, leave a comment on this issue regarding the results including noting all/any ruby warnings.

If everything tested works, and there are no Ruby deprecation errors to clean up, check the checkbox below.

• inspec # the built in one
• test-kitchen with inspec
• cookstyle

Knife Plugins

Ensure basic functionality of each plugin works

• knife acl, e.g. knife acl show nodes NODE_NAME
• knife tidy, e.g. knife tidy server report
• knife opc, e.g. knife opc org create
• knife windows, e.g. knife wsman test
• knife bootstrap (ssh, winrm, cross-platforms)

Clouds and virtualization

Ensure we can use the knife plugin to create an instance, and the test-kitchen driver works if available.

• azure (test-kitchen with azure-rm and knife azure)
• ec2 (test-kitchen with ec2 and knife ec2)
• google (test-kitchen with google and knife google)
• test-kitchen with hyperv
• test-kitchen with vagrant

Additional clouds/virtualization

These clouds are lower priority as they may be difficult to get access to an instance of them

• test-kitchen with digital ocean
• test-kitchen with openstack
• vcenter (test-kitchen with vcenter and knife-vcenter)
• knife-vsphere

Additional tests

• knife push - requires a push jobs server.
• stove, e.g. stove login # logs in to supermarket
• berkshelf, e.g. berks install
• Warnings running on Ruby 2.7 chefspec/chefspec#986

Aha! Link: https://chef.aha.io/features/SH-1840

[dheerajd-msys]

Chef Workstation Setup

1. We need to remove installed chef/chefdk package from our machine

2. check status of chef/chefdk
   dpkg --status chef/chefdk

3. Remove installed package
   sudo dpkg -P chef/chefdk

4. Download chef-worksation for your ubuntu machine from current channel
   https://downloads.chef.io/chef-workstation/current

5. Install chef-workstaion
    sudo dpkg -i <downloaded-chef-workstation>

6. Set your system PATH for chef-workstation

dheerajdubey@PUN-LAP-DHEERAJ:~$ echo $PATH
/home/dheerajdubey/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.0/bin:/home/dheerajdubey/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.0@global/bin:/usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.6.0/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/share/rvm/bin

dheerajdubey@PUN-LAP-DHEERAJ:~$ export PATH=/opt/chef-workstation/embedded/bin/:$PATH

7. Set your GEM_PATH & GEM_HOME to /opt/chef-workstation/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0
   export GEM_HOME=/opt/chef-workstation/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0
   export GEM_PATH=/opt/chef-workstation/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0

8. Validate using :
   gem env

9. By this time you should be able to see "knife -v" output 

10. dheerajdubey@PUN-LAP-DHEERAJ:~/.aws$ chef-cli -v
Chef Workstation version: 20.5.27
Chef Infra Client version: 16.0.287
Chef InSpec version: 4.18.111
Chef CLI version: 2.0.10
Test Kitchen version: 2.5.0
Cookstyle version: 6.3.4

11.
dheerajdubey@PUN-LAP-DHEERAJ:~/.aws$ which ruby
/opt/chef-workstation/embedded/bin/ruby

[dheerajd-msys]

dheerajdubey@PUN-LAP-DHEERAJ:~/.aws$ knife ec2 server create -I ami-xxxxx -U ec2-user -i ddubey-msys-chef.pem -N ddubey-amazon-msys --sudo --use-sudo-password -c knife.rb

WARN: Deprecation CHEF-29 from /opt/chef-workstation/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/knife-ec2-1.0.36/lib/chef/knife/helpers/ec2_base.rb:183:in `locate_config_value'

  Use of config_value without a fallback_key is deprecated.  Knife plugin authors should access the config hash directly, which does correct merging of cli and config options.

Please see https://docs.chef.io/deprecations_knife_bootstrap_apis/ for further details and information on how to correct this problem.
WARN: Deprecation CHEF-29 from /opt/chef-workstation/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/knife-ec2-1.0.36/lib/chef/knife/helpers/ec2_base.rb:183:in `locate_config_value'

[lamont-granquist]

@dheerajd-msys I'm working on fixing all of that in knife-ec2 right now. I've fixed knife-azure already and master of that could be Q/A tested. All the rest of the knife plugins need to be fixed, but we should probably coordinate if we're going to do that in parallel.

[dheerajd-msys]

Reports are getting generated only in JSON format for knife tidy #1178 (comment)

[dheerajd-msys]

Fail( IN cases when the user has no read permission to any of the organization and --orgs is not provided in CLI ) #1178 (comment) and works well when we provide --orgs option for knife tidy server report like #1178 (comment)

[btm]

@dheerajd-msys I commented on #1178 (comment) that those issues in knife-tidy are fine. We're just looking for regressions, critical failures, and deprecation warnings here.

[dheerajd-msys]

Thank you @btm.

[tyler-ball]

chefspec is not tracked on this Zenhub board so I added chefspec/chefspec#986 in the card description

[dheerajd-msys]

@btm chefspec/chefspec#986 is fixed via chefspec/chefspec#988 in chef-workstation v20.6.64

[dheerajd-msys]

chef/chef#9922 is fixed in chef/chef#10298 and available in Chef Infra Client v16.4.35+ and Chef workstation v20.8.125
Tested with both successfully.