Resolve Chef Kitchen Verify Error "Cannot converge without accepting the Chef Infra Client License"

You might have experienced, Azure pipeline failing from kitchen verify step due to Chef Infra client License not accepted error while  creating a Chef test kitchen in Azure. Let's look at how to fix this issue in this post.

Creating Chef Test Kitchen in Azure Using Azure Pipelines

When you are working with Chef, you can use chef’s integrated testing framework to test recipes to ensures recipes run as expected before applying recipes to production. This blog explains how to configure, chef test kitchen in an Azure VM using Azure DevOps pipeline.

Resolve "Kitchen.yml does not exist" Issue in Azure Pipelines with Execute Chef Component Task

You might encounter "kitchen.yml does not exist" issue with execute chef component task in Azure pipelines. Reason for this failure is, Azure DevOps pipeline task is looking for the kitchen.yml file in the Build.SourcesDirectory by default. Further, there is no parameter to pass the kitchen.yml file location with kitchen create command.

How to Enable Read Write for Deployed Content in Kudus When Using Web Deploy Package

The Build Packages which is packaged as webdeploy and deployed to Azure App service using Kudu, only  have the read access . However, If you want to change content using kudu of Azure app service or stop/start a web job, you would not be able to do so due to not having wright permission. This blog explains how to enable read write permission to content in an app service deployed using a web deploy package.

You would be able to see the read only mode message similar to following image.

How to Successfully Deploy .NET Web App Built with Windows Agent Using Linux Agents

 

When building a .NET Web App with /p:WebPublishMethod=Package build argument to package as a web deployment package, the package is created with a folder structure where all the dll files are located in inner subfolder. If we use Azure DevOps Windows agents, We can deploy these packages using msdeploy.exe to correct path of Azure App service without worrying about the folder structure of the build package. However, If we use Azure DevOps Linux agents to deploy, it deploys packages with kudus copy and copying the inner folder structure  to wwwroot. Then the App service will fail to run the .NET web application. This blog explains how to correctly deploy a .NET Web App built with Windows as a web deployment package using Azure DevOps Linux agents.

Web deployment package would create a folder hierarchy such as below. If we deploy below package using Linux agent, it will copy content folder with the all the sub folders to the wwwroot of the App service making the app to not runnable.

Setting up Chef Infra server in Ubuntu 20.04 WSL2 in Windows 10/11

This blog explains how to configure chef infra server in WSL2 in Windows 10/11. 

Prerequisites:

• WSL2 with Ubuntu 20.04 installed

Let's get started,

• Go to https://www.chef.io/downloads/tools/infra-server/ and download the relevant infra server. 
• Copy downloaded .deb file to your work folder.
• Open WSL2 and run the following command to install the chef infra server on WSL2

sudo dpkg -i chef-server-core-<version>.deb

• Run the below command to start all the Chef services.

Resolve "System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate" in WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 distro

This blog explains how to fix the following error occurred when starting all the Chef services in Ubuntu 20.04 with WSL2 using "sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure" command.

"System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate"

Drawing Workflow Charts in Azure DevOps Wikis

Azure DevOps wikis supports Mermaid syntax  that can be used to draw diagrams such as flow charts, UML diagrams, pie charts, Gantt charts and many more. 

This blog explains mermaid syntax sample in Azure DevOps 

• Script starts with :::mermaid and ends with :::
• Diagram type can be defined as graph, pie and more
• Shape style can be selected as,

        () - rounded rectangle

        {} - diamond

        [] - rectangle