Create a skill assembly

A skill assembly defines a set of skills should be installed or removed from nodes using add and remove rules.

Prerequisites

Skills are defined.

Create a skill assembly

To create a skill assembly, follow these steps:

Create a file named skill-assembly.json and paste in the following skill assembly definition:

{  "name": "my-skill-assembly",  "skills": [  {  "action": "add",  "skill": {  "name": "courier-runner",  "channel": "stable",  "value": [  "1.4.4"  ]  }  },  {  "action": "add",  "skill": {  "channel": "stable",  "name": "chef-gohai",  "value": [  "1.0.3"  ]  }  },  {  "action": "add",  "skill": {  "name": "shell-interpreter",  "channel": "stable",  "value": [  "1.0.3"  ]  }  },  {  "action": "add",  "skill": {  "name": "inspec-interpreter",  "channel": "stable",  "value": [  "1.0.4"  ]  }  },  {  "action": "add",  "skill": {  "name": "restart-interpreter",  "channel": "stable",  "value": [  "1.0.2"  ]  }  },  {  "action": "add",  "skill": {  "name": "chef-client-interpreter",  "channel": "stable",  "value": [  "1.0.4"  ]  }  }  ] }

Replace each skill’s version number with the version supported by the version of Chef 360 Platform that you’re running. See the release notes for details.

Create the skill assembly:

chef-node-management-cli management assembly create-assembly --body-file skill-assembly.json --profile <NODE_MANAGER_PROFILE_NAME>

The response is similar to the following:

{ "item": {  "skillAssemblyId": "e2e66c8a-79ff-4bdc-a4cd-739c3f02f9e9"  } }

Save the value of skillAssemblyId, you will use it to create a node cohort.

Troubleshooting

Use the assembly find-one-assembly subcommand to verify that the skill assembly was created or updated successfully:

chef-node-management-cli management assembly find-one-assembly --skillAssemblyId <SKILL_ASSEMBLY_ID> --profile <NODE_MANAGER_PROFILE_NAME>

More information

See the skill assembly documentation

Next steps

Create override settings that define required skill settings.