knife list when excuted from chef-workstation does not list my chef-server

Question

Hi I have installed the chef server with the below commands.

#!/bin/bash

set -x

sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install firewalld -y
sudo systemctl status firewalld
sudo systemctl start firewalld
sudo systemctl status firewalld
sudo yum install git -y
sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=443/tcp --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
cd /tmp
wget  https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef-server/13.2.0/el/7/chef-server-core-13.2.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh chef-server-core-13.2.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure  --chef-license=accept
sudo chef-server-ctl user-create tuser Test User [email protected] 'Test1234' --filename /home/ec2-user/tuser.pem
sudo chef-server-ctl org-create testdemo 'Test Demo Inc' --association_user tuser --filename /home/ec2-user/testdemo.pem
wget  https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef-manage/2.5.16/el/7/chef-manage-2.5.16-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh chef-manage-2.5.16-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure  --chef-license=accept
sudo chef-manage-ctl reconfigure --accept-license
sudo chef-server-ctl service-list

At NSG, I have allowed port 443 from anywhere. However, I want to create a simple EC2 instance from my workstation, obviously with chef-server, to do so. When I do **knife list**, I get error message below

ERROR: CONFIGURATION ERROR:You have invalid ruby syntax in your config file c:/Users/hp/.chef/config.rb

       SyntaxError: c:/Users/hp/.chef/config.rb:7: unterminated string meets end of file
       c:/Users/hp/.chef/config.rb:7: syntax error, unexpected end-of-input, expecting ']'
       Relevant file content:
         6:   'c:\Users\hp\chef-repo\'
         7: ]

My C:\users\hp.chef\config.rb is as below:

chef_server_url 'https://52.23.248.110/organizations/testdemo'
chef_zero.enabled true
#chef_zero[:port] 8889
client_key '/etc/chef/client.pem'
cookbook_path [
  'c:\Users\hp\chef-repo\'
]

Note client_key is pointing to pem file and I have two pem files, 1 user pem file and another is organization pem file. Which one chould client_key point to? and how to have this error resolved?

Note:

1. Chef Work station is Windows 10 Laptop

2. Chef Server is on AWS

3. Want to provision an ec2 and bootstrap with some basic software as part of POC

Answer 1

The error:

SyntaxError: c:/Users/hp/.chef/config.rb:7: unterminated string meets end of file
       c:/Users/hp/.chef/config.rb:7: syntax error, unexpected end-of-input, expecting ']'
       Relevant file content:
         6:   'c:\Users\hp\chef-repo\'
         7: ]

is pretty clear. You have a syntax error in your config file. Your backslash is escaping the single quote. Add another one before the '

6:   'c:\Users\hp\chef-repo\\'

or use forward slashes. Ruby actually uses / for paths on any platform.

6:   'c:/Users/hp/chef-repo/'