How to control the version of Chef that Vagrant uses to provision VMs?

rubygems chef-infra vagrant
Steve Bennett picture Steve Bennett · Jul 4, 2012 · Viewed 14.9k times · Source

A current Chef recipe isn't running because of a bug in version 0.10.10. How can I upgrade the version of Chef that Vagrant uses, to 0.10.12?

I don't want to just update it for the current instance of the VM - I keep destroying and rebuilding those. Do I need to change something in the Vagrant base box, or something in my (physical) system's installation?

Answer

mirkokiefer picture mirkokiefer · Aug 13, 2013

Using the Vagrant plugin vagrant-omnibus worked great for me:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

You can then simply configure your chef version in the Vagrantfile before doing the provisioning:

config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest

You can also specify a specific version:

config.omnibus.chef_version = '11.6.0'

Related questions

Should rbenv be installed system-wide, or at a user level?

I'm building a vagrant setup, and part of that is installing rbenv. I'm using librarian-chef to manage all my chef cookbooks, and it installs rbenv and ruby-build. However, when I tried to ssh into my Vagrant VM and type ruby …

Read More
How to install CocoaPods?

I referred too many links and tried, but had no success. If any one has an idea then please please share with me. I read cocoa pods documents and many times tried to install but always failed because of the …

Read More
How to install a gem or update RubyGems if it fails with a permissions error

I'm trying to install a gem using gem install mygem or update RubyGems using gem update --system, and it fails with this error: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 directory. …

Read More