knife zero converge command got sudo: chef-client: command not found error about knife-zero

[chadjiang]

I followed this #148 (comment) to create .zshenv add /usr/local/bin into PATH in the node, then knife zero converge working! Thank you very much!

[sawanoboly]

@chadjiang

#148 (comment)

Try running it on a mac with the settings shown in this issue comment.

[chadjiang]

i added Chef::Config[:chef_client_path] = "/usr/local/bin/chef-client" in knife.rb , but not working. Chef just updated their chef version to 17.9.18. Do you know which chef infra version knife zero support? I would like to downgrade chef infra client to that version to try?

When I use chef server to mange node, I did not see this kind of issue. I guess something possible related to ChefZero when we do knife zero bootstrap

[sawanoboly]

I guess I didn't explain well enough. Try putting the following path in knife.rb according to your environment.

Chef::Config[:chef_client_path] = "/opt/chef/bin/chef-client"

[chadjiang]

I tried this, but did not work either.

after use knife zero bootstrap , knife zero converge did not work and get this error:
sudo: chef-client: command not found

and knife ssh got failed
knife ssh "name:mac-chef-test-m1" 'sudo /opt/chef/bin/chef-client'
it throw same errors as ran "chef-client" directly in the node.

When I checked client.rb
chef_server_url "chefzero://localhost:8889"
chef_zero.port 8889
I think for some reason chefzero on localhost 8889 not working, which cause failure.

[sawanoboly]

@chadjiang
I'm glad to hear that it was resolved. I will pass on some additional information.

Let me explain how knife-zero works.
At runtime, knife-zero starts a chef-zero server on the local node, and the remote node gets the recipe via ssh port forward.
The chef-zero server is not started all the time, but is only running when knife-zero is running. Therefore, it is the correct behavior that chef-zero is not running on the remote node.