Solaris Chef Kitchen Docker Quick Notes

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Preparing Solaris 11 for Chef, especially Chef Kitchen(Ruby Gem’s)

For Solaris 11 to be able to run / use Chef Kitchen, you might need to follow the below installation perpetrations.

Note: The notes below extend the article – Using chef kitchen docker build behind corporate proxy firewall

pkg install ruby
           Packages to install:  2
           Mediators to change:  1
       Create boot environment: No
Create backup boot environment: No

DOWNLOAD                                PKGS         FILES    XFER (MB)   SPEED
Completed                                2/2   14659/14659    14.5/14.5  362k/s

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Installing new actions                   14737/14737
Updating package state database                 Done
Updating package cache                           0/0
Updating image state                            Done
Creating fast lookup database                   Done
Updating package cache                           2/2

To get the Solaris 11 ruby up-to-date, you need to run the below.

gem update --system

Note: If you get the below error, you will have to manually update the system described below.

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
    SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (https://api.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz)

Manually updating the ruby system.

wget https://rubygems.org/downloads/rubygems-update-2.6.7.gem
...
gem install --local /tmp/rubygems-update-2.6.7.gem
...
/usr/ruby/2.1/bin/update_rubygems
RubyGems 2.6.7 installed
Parsing documentation for rubygems-2.6.7
Installing ri documentation for rubygems-2.6.7

=== 2.6.7 / 2016-09-26
[..] snip

Finally, install bundler. to install, just run the below.

gem install bundler
# or 
gem install bundler -s http://rubygems.org/
gem install test-kitchen
Fetching: mixlib-shellout-2.2.7.gem (100%)
Successfully installed mixlib-shellout-2.2.7
[..] snip

Note: In solaris add this to your system PATH, in Linux its usually not necessary.