vagrant: script to upgrade chef in advance

Vagrantfile

@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
   boxes.each do |box|
     config.vm.define box[:name] do |node|
       node.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
-        vb.gui = true
+        # access via tty => user: vagrant, password: vagrant
+        #vb.gui = true
+
         # 1. adapter: NAT to allow vagrant setup the machine
         # 2. adapter: for internal network between nodes
         vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id,
@@ -56,6 +58,14 @@ Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
 
       node.vm.hostname = box[:name]
 
+      # Update Chef in VM to specific version before running chef provisioner
+      config.vm.provision :shell do |shell|
+        shell.path = "script/upgrade_chef.sh"
+        # target version
+        shell.args = "11.8.2"
+      end
+      config.vm.provision(:shell){ |shell| shell.path = "script/fix_stdin_error.sh" }
+
       config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
         chef_default.call(chef)
         chef.add_role box[:role].to_s

script/fix_stdin_error.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# If last line is `mesg n`, replace with conditional.
+if [ "`tail -1 /root/.profile`" = "mesg n" ]; then
+  echo 'Patching basebox to prevent future `stdin: is not a tty` errors...'
+  sed -i '$d' /root/.profile
+  cat << 'EOH' >> /root/.profile
+  if `tty -s`; then
+    mesg n
+  fi
+EOH
+fi

script/upgrade_chef.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+gem=/opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem
+chef=/opt/chef/bin/chef-client
+
+if [ "`$chef -v | awk '{print $NF}'`" != "$1" ]; then
+  echo "Upgrading Chef to $1...";
+  $gem uninstall chef --all --ignore-dependencies --executables
+  $gem install chef -v $1 --no-rdoc --no-ri
+fi