knife bootstrap should check for templates before it builds a server

Also you guys don't have a Version for 0.5.15 in your ticket counter.....

Also I heard in the channel yesterday some people were having dns problems with connecting to hosts like "198-101-236-150.static.cloud-ips.com" and someone wrote a hack to connect to Public IP Address: 198.101.236.150 instead. You guys might wanna take a look at that if you don't already know.

Just found something else out that might be helpful,

• I looked back on the documentation and found that it says nothing about using --template-file when using custom templates with knife bootstrap:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Custom+Knife+Bootstrap+Script

• I also tried renaming my bootstrap_template file to 'chef-full' but still get the same error. I located where chef-full is set as the 'default' in the rackspace_server_create.rb file: https://github.com/opscode/knife-rackspace/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/rackspace_server_create.rb#L90

• It parses the --template-file argument https://github.com/opscode/knife-rackspace/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/rackspace_server_create.rb#L92

• • • IT works fine with knife bootstrap

root@muah:~/chef-repo# knife bootstrap 198.61.192.236 --template-file /root/chef-repo/rackspace/chef-full -x root -P durp --sudo
Bootstrapping Chef on 198.61.192.236
198.61.192.236 it works

Is this a direct copy? Is that a typo in 'rackpsace'?

root@muah:~/chef-repo# knife rackspace server create -I 125 -f 3 --template-file /root/chef-repo/rackpsace/bootstrap_template

There has not been a released version of knife version 0.5.15.

knife-rackspace (0.5.14, 0.5.12, 0.5.10, 0.5.8, 0.5.6, 0.5.4, 0.5.3, 0.5.2, 0.5.1, 0.5.0)

Specifically for these sorts of situations we try to bump the version to an odd number after a release so that when you ask someone what version they are using and they report an odd number, it means they've installed from a unknown commit in the source since the last release. It is correct to file the bug against the next unreleased version as unless the bug is fixed it should be in that version.

ok So BTM just pointed out that I had a typo in the path name thanks to my excellent typing skillz. testing it now... maybe something can be learned from this yet, check the pathname of any pathname arguments being passed before sending the job off to rackspace to create the server...

root@ChefServer:~/chef-repo# knife rackspace server create -I 125 -f 3 --template-file /root/chef-repo/rackspace/bootstrap_template
Instance ID: 21070098
Host ID: 41e2a1206f500dca698b3ae7fd653a21
Name: slice21070098
Flavor: 1GB server
Image: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Metadata:

Waiting server...................................................................................................................................................................................................
Public DNS Name: 173-45-255-81.static.cloud-ips.com
Public IP Address: 173.45.255.81
Private IP Address: 10.180.152.115
Password:

Waiting for sshddone
Bootstrapping Chef on 173-45-255-81.static.cloud-ips.com
173-45-255-81.static.cloud-ips.com it works <-----

Instance ID: 21070098
Host ID: 41e2a1206f500dca698b3ae7fd653a21
Name: slice21070098
Flavor: 1GB server
Image: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Metadata:
Public DNS Name: 173-45-255-81.static.cloud-ips.com
Public IP Address: 173.45.255.81
Private IP Address: 10.180.152.115
Password:
Environment: _default
Run List:
root@ChefServer:~/chef-repo#

Sorry guys and thanks BTM as always

Moved to chef, as this is actually in the core knife bootstrap code.

Fixed in 637ad90b003c29176507250160e0c677da5008a1 in 10-stable.