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knife-azure 1.6.0 doc changes

Changes to server create subcommand

Updates to the knife azure server create subcommand include cloud-api bootstrap protocol improvements for SSL and other configuration options during node bootstrap.

SSL configuration during cloud-api bootstrap

The following options specified on the knife-azure command-line or from your local workstation's knife configuration (e.g.knife.rb) will be used to configure the remote node

  • --node-ssl-verify-mode: If this option is configured on the knife-azure CLI or in knife configuration, its value will be configured in the client.rb of the created remote node.
  • SSL Certificates for cloud-api boostrap: When knife-azure bootstraps a newly created node, it will transfer the certificates from your local knife configuration (e.g. knife.rb) to the new node so that it can verify the same systems that knife on your workstations verifies such as your Chef Server. For more information on SSL certificate management, see the documentation for the knife ssl fetch subcommand.

--bootstrap-version support for cloud-api bootstrap

The --bootstrap-version option is now honored for cloud-api bootstrap, so when cloud-api is specified for the --bootstrap-protocol option, --bootstrap-version may be specified to configure a specific version of the chef-client to install during bootstrap.

--azure-extension-client-config option for cloud-api bootstrap

When using the Azure Chef extension to bootstrap a node by specifying --bootstrap-protocol with the cloud-api option, the following option may now be specified:

  • --azure-extension-client-config: Optional. Path to a client.rb file for use by chef-client on the bootstrapped node. Only honored when the --bootstrap-protocol option is set to cloud-api'.

When this option is specified, configuration in the specified client.rb will be used by the node, though knife-azure will configure a somewhat different client.rb file that includes the one specified to --azure-extension-client-config.

Note that settings managed by knife-azure such as the Chef Server, run list, validation client name, etc., will override any settings specified in the client.rb configured by --azure-extension-client-config.

This option is useful for including any other additional custom configuration for your environment on new nodes that is not otherwise configurable from knife-azure commands.