Troubles?

I met Chef::Exceptions::ContentLengthMismatch: Response body length when bootstrap/converge.

The net-ssh 2.9.2 (and older) will immediately send a CHANNEL_CLOSE even though there is still pending data in the output buffer.
Please update net-ssh to 2.9.4 or later. It’s already fixed.

I’ve seen warning Doing old-style registration with ... at bootstraping.

NP. Please check [Validatorless Bootstraps Chef Blog](https://www.chef.io/blog/2015/04/16/validatorless-bootstraps/).

Knife-Zero always uses dummy validation_key. You can choose ignoring this message or using chef-vault.

I saw Field 'policy_name' invalid error .

Probably, you have set the options that you do not use to configuration file (e.g. knife.rb). In most cases, it is the validation_key, it will been created by knife configure.

Please remove unused options from configuration by refering https://knife-zero.github.io/40_configuration/.

Unintended run list is applied during Converge

There is probably a duplicate Node object.
For example, if there is a Node object that matches the host name of the remote server (FQDN that can be obtained by hostname -f), such as nodes / localhost.json, it may take precedence.

In bootstrap, if you give specific name to manage with the -N, --node-name NAME option, the node_name attribute is written in client.rb on the remote server, so you can prevent it.

Private key error ERROR: NotImplementedError: OpenSSH keys only supported if ED25519 is available

You can extend the number of supported formats as an option in the SSH connection library, net-ssh, so please try it. Since native extensions are included, both methods require build tools such as make and GCC.

For bundler, add the following to Gemfile.

gem 'rbnacl', '< 5.0', require: false
gem 'rbnacl-libsodium', require: false
gem 'bcrypt_pbkdf', '< 2.0', require: false

For Chef-DK environment, use chef gem install.

$ chef gem install rbnacl -v '< 5.0'
$ chef gem install rbnacl-libsodium
$ chef gem install bcrypt_pbkdf -v '< 2.0'
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