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Vid Luther
Asked: 2011-07-21 11:00:39 +0800 CST

Bootstrapping servers with chef, and changing the SSH Port

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I have a full set of recipes that are working to bootstrap a server at Rackspace, it configures and installs everything as needed. Now, I want to change the default port SSH runs on. This is fairly easy to do, but the question is, how do I tell Knife to use 22 when bootstrapping, but the non standard port when doing everything else on registered nodes?

ssh chef

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  1. This has been in chef since version 0.9.16. You can configure the port by adding the following to your .chef/knife.rb.

    knife[:ssh_port] = '22'

    Change 22 to the port you want. You don't need to pass -c to the knife bootstrap command if your configuration is in .chef/knife.rb in the current directory.

    Ticket for this feature.

    Commit for the change.

    More information on configuring knife can be found on the Chef wiki:

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