Μήνας: Δεκέμβριος 2015

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A Chef that doesn’t know how to cook with systemd

Here is some good advice to handle systemd anxiety from adamo.

Configuration management / orchestration software already knows how to handle systemd and they do it well. Take advantage of that.

Unfortunately for me, there is a Chef server in our infra so old that doesn’t know how to handle systemd, and with the release of CentOS 7 (1511) it finally broke.

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Error executing action `restart` on resource 'service[iptables]'
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Chef::Exceptions::Service
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service[iptables]: unable to locate the init.d script!

It expects that all services have a script in /etc/init.d, so here is my quick hack around it.

$ ls -l /etc/init.d/iptables
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Dec 17 17:34 /etc/init.d/iptables -> /usr/local/bin/systemctl-wrapper

$ cat /usr/local/bin/systemctl-wrapper
#!/bin/bash
# workaround for old school SysV persons
# stsimb dec 2015

SERVICE="$(basename $0)"
exec /bin/systemctl "$@" ${SERVICE}.service

Now we can spend more time migrating to our new Chef, that knows how to handle systemd.