You can use the community build package version of Cinc-Client on remote nodes if you find it difficult to accept the license when you run Chef Infra Client for the first time or every time you upgrade.
https://gitlab.com/cinc-project/client
This information is as of December 2019.
Cinc-Client is a package that is simply changed default configration directory from/etc/chef to /etc/cinc from chef-client.
chef-client symlinks to cinc-client is also created when install.
Therefore, it can be replaced simply by specifying the path to the configuration file at runtime as shown below.
chef-client --config /etc/chef/client.rbOr, create symlink from /etc/cinc to /etc/chef` may be works.
CINC provides Chef’s omnibus-installer compatible installation script.
After that, install cinc using zero bootstrap and --alter-project. At the time of replacement, it is safer to do --no-converge.
The following is a sample to bootstrap an Ubuntu 16.04 node.
$ knife zero bootstrap ${YOUR_NODE_IP} \
--sudo \
--alter-project cinc \
-N my-ubuntu16
It’s able to bootstrap without problems.
$ knife node show my-ubuntu16
Node Name: my-ubuntu16
Environment: _default
FQDN: ubuntu-xenial
IP: xx.xx.xx.xx
Run List:
Roles:
Recipes:
Platform: ubuntu 16.04
Tags:
If you want to make this alter-project configuration permanent in the configuration file (knife.rb or config.rb), you can write as follows.
knife[:alter_project] = 'cinc'
The --alter-project option can be used with zero converge as well.
$ knife zero converge 'name:my-ubuntu16' \
--client-version latest \
--alter-project cinc \
--sudo
This can also be omitted if the following is described in config.
knife[:alter_project] = 'cinc'
First, remove Chef Infra Client with knife ssh.
$ knife ssh "name:my-ubuntu16" "sudo dpkg -r chef"
(Reading database ... 72883 files and directories currently installed.)
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Removing chef (15.3.14-1) ...
