Terraform: Provisioner Chef license accept

[mztriz]

I cannot use the latest Chef Infra Client 15.0.300 with Terraform, it hangs on user acceptance of two product licenses.

 provisioner "chef" {
                      ...
                      version = "15.0.300"
                      ...
}

Acceptance required:

openstack_compute_instance_v2.vm1 (chef): +---------------------------------------------+
openstack_compute_instance_v2.vm1 (chef):             Chef License Acceptance

openstack_compute_instance_v2.vm1 (chef): Before you can continue, 2 product licenses
openstack_compute_instance_v2.vm1 (chef): must be accepted. View the license at
openstack_compute_instance_v2.vm1 (chef): https://www.chef.io/end-user-license-agreement/

openstack_compute_instance_v2.vm1 (chef): Licenses that need accepting:
openstack_compute_instance_v2.vm1 (chef):   * Chef Infra Client
openstack_compute_instance_v2.vm1 (chef):   * Chef InSpec

openstack_compute_instance_v2.vm1 (chef): Do you accept the 2 product licenses (yes/no)?

[apparentlymart]

Hi @mztriz,

I've not been able to try this myself since I don't a Chef environment ready to test against, but I've heard that adding the following configuration will work around this problem:

client_options = [ "chef_license 'accept'" ]

[apparentlymart]

Hi again @mztriz!

I assume your closing this means that the workaround worked! If so, I'm glad. :tada:

I'm going to reopen this to mark that we ought to do _something_ here: at least, we ought to document that this is how to use Chef after a certain version. We might also consider adding a first-class argument for accepting the license, similar to what's proposed in #21345 for the similar problem in Habitat.

[pselle]

Hello! This was released in 0.12.9
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0129-september-17-2019

There is now an accept_license boolean setting.

https://www.terraform.io/docs/provisioners/habitat.html#accept_license-bool-

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