Dan DeLeo appeared on the FoodFightShow some time ago to walk through "what a Chef run really does". I expanded on these remarks in my personal investigation.
bin/chef-client creates a new Chef::Application::Client (subclass of Chef::Application which sets up common things like loggers across chef-client, chef-solo, knife, etc.) then jump to:
lib/chef/client.rb
application classes create a new Chef::Client object, which calls initialize().
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| require 'rubygems' | |
| require 'chef/knife' | |
| Chef::Config.from_file(File.join(Chef::Knife.chef_config_dir, 'knife.rb')) | |
| rest = Chef::REST.new(Chef::Config[:chef_server_url]) | |
| Chef::Node.list.each do |node| | |
| %w{read update delete grant}.each do |perm| |
| # shove this in ~/.chef/bootstrap/joyent-smartos.erb | |
| # run knife bootstrap <hostname> -d joyent-smartos | |
| # works with joyent images: | |
| # 01b2c898-945f-11e1-a523-af1afbe22822 smartos 1.6.3 smartos smartmachine | |
| # f9e4be48-9466-11e1-bc41-9f993f5dff36 smartos64 1.6.3 smartos smartmachine | |
| bash -c ' | |
| if [ ! -f /opt/local/bin/chef-client ]; then | |
| pkgin -f update | |
| pkgin -y install gcc-compiler gcc-runtime gcc-tools scmgit-base scmgit-docs gmake ruby193-base ruby193-yajl-ruby |