I am running open source chef server on ubuntu ec2 instance. I am trying to upload the cookbook from my workstation using knife to chef-server, I am getting following error
/home/jeevan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:878:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError)
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:878:in `open'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:878:in `block in connect'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/lib/ruby/2.0.0/timeout.rb:66:in `timeout'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:877:in `connect'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:862:in `do_start'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:851:in `start'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:172:in `transmit'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:64:in `execute'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:33:in `execute'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/resource.rb:76:in `put'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/cookbook_uploader.rb:151:in `block in uploader_function_for'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/cookbook_uploader.rb:25:in `call'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/cookbook_uploader.rb:25:in `block (3 levels) in setup_worker_threads'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/cookbook_uploader.rb:24:in `loop'
from /home/jeevan/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib/chef/cookbook_uploader.rb:24:in `block (2 levels) in setup_worker_threads'
when I ran the same command in the verbose mode I figured out knife or workstation or chef-client installed on my laptop is trying to connect to the private ip of the ubuntu ec2 instance.
How do I prevent the knife to stop connecting to private ip of the ubuntu ec2 instance and connect to the sub-domain/domain or elastic ip of the server.
Kindly help me out
check how you configured chef_server_url in your chef configuration file.
You may want to configure the fqdn to your server instead of just the hostname.
for example if your machine is called myhserver.mycompany.com then if you configured (in your knife.rb)
chef_server_url 'myserver:8080'
then your server may be resolved to the private ip, and if you configred
chef_server_url 'myserver.mycompany.com:8080'
Then it may be resolved to your public IP. it depends how your DNS is configured.
Note: you can also consider configuring chef_server_url to point to your IP (instead of hostnames/fqdn).