some notes while going through the new tutorial.

[hmalphettes]

Hi Drc Nic,
Here are my notes while going through this revised version of the tutorial.
Really just details that will go away and might not be useful to pull.
I hope it helps.

[drnic]

Alternately to "make these changes" is we either:

• say "run this cherry pick command", or
• we manage a fork of bosh that contains all the patches we need to make bosh work

Thoughts?

[hmalphettes]

I wish we could convince the bosh guys to take my very innocent change?
I rewrote it to minimize the changes to the behavior they currently have.

Any advice on what I could do to make them comfortable with it?
I am sure they are busy with everything else already.

Avoiding the fork would be nice unless there are tweaks you have in mind?

Otherwise:

• cherry pick would be my favorite.
• a small script to patch things up

[drnic]

Bonus, there is also this pull request in progress for simplifying the instructions for using chef_deployer. Let me know if you have time to have a look at them. #21

[hmalphettes]

I'll run through that new version based on pull-21: my motivation is that this time I need to figure out why my chef created bosh VM refuses to reboot.

[drnic]

I'm trying this:

cd ~/.chefbosh/bosh/releases
git checkout -b patches
git fetch ssh://$(whoami)@reviews.cloudfoundry.org:29418/bosh refs/changes/87/7387/2 && git cherry-pick FETCH_HEAD


rm -rf /tmp/repos
ruby ../chef_deployer/bin/chef_deployer deploy ~/.chefbosh --default-password='' --local

[drnic]

Still got this error:

==> DIRECTLY CONNECTING TO ec2-23-21-73-121.compute-1.amazonaws.com
:::deploy_sudo_passwd:::
password for: ec2-23-21-73-121.compute-1.amazonaws.com@vcap:{:config=>false, :port=>22, :password=>nil, :auth_methods=>["publickey", "hostbased"], :user=>"vcap"}? 

Checking that vcap user is correct.

[drnic]

I can ssh [email protected] successfully.

[drnic]

Now trying the first patch of @hmalphettes's

git checkout master
git checkout -b p6935
git fetch ssh://$(whoami)@reviews.cloudfoundry.org:29418/bosh refs/changes/35/6935/1 && git cherry-pick FETCH_HEAD

rm -rf /tmp/repos
ruby ../chef_deployer/bin/chef_deployer deploy ~/.chefbosh --default-password='' --local

[drnic]

That is, I'm trying http://reviews.cloudfoundry.org/#/c/6935/

Initially I tried http://reviews.cloudfoundry.org/#/c/7387/

[drnic]

Current attempt, as it did once before if I recollect, seems to block here:

...
       repos  uploading bosh to ec2-23-21-73-121.compute-1.amazonaws.com
==> EXECUTING SSH LOGIN git push -q ssh://[email protected]:22/var/vcap/deploy/repos/bosh master

[drnic]

Suggestions on debugging what is happening?

[hmalphettes]

humf. I'll try this again then. In my experience it crashes loudly with the stack trace I reported in gerrit and that Ruslan also mentionned on the mailing list today.