Upgrade Chef server to 0.10.8

December 18th, 2011

Upgrading to Chef Server ( 0.10.8 ) is dead simple, takes probably 30 seconds.

for s in server server-webui solr expander; do sudo /etc/init.d/chef-${s} stop; done
sudo gem update chef chef-server --no-ri --no-rdoc
for s in server server-webui solr expander; do sudo /etc/init.d/chef-${s} start; done

If you want you can backup the server first using Seth’s backup script ( here ). Installing, and running it, is dead simple:

curl -O https://raw.github.com/jtimberman/knife-scripts/master/chef_server_backup.rb
knife exec chef_server_backup.rb

This will create a backup fo the server in your .chef dir. Enjoy

johntdyer

John T Dyer