Having an Issue Going from Zero to Live on RHEL-7

[aronchick]

I was running through a default installation and ran into an issue with the following AMI:

 ami-99bef1a9

Here are my notes and my recipe

• Built the basic cookbook, based on the instructions on MySQL github page:

mysql_service 'default' do
  bind_address '0.0.0.0'
  port '3306'
  version '5.5' # changed later, see notes
  initial_root_password 'hunter2' #obviously fake
  action [:create, :start]
end

mysql_config 'default' do
  source 'mysite.cnf.erb'
  notifies :restart, 'mysql_service[default]'
  action :create
end

-- (BTW, it's super annoying that it doesn't download all dependencies automatically!)

• Knife uploaded the cookbook and went to the directory to chef-client
• Failed, due to mysql55-community repo not being available
• Had to eventually skip if unavailable, and upgraded yum
• Tried to run chef-client again, and still failed
• Downloaded the most recent mysql cookbook from Github
• Then hacked again at the cookbook, and changed mysql to '5.7'
• Still didn't work, happened to randomly enter one of the errors in google and came back with the rhel update site for adjusting repos
• Found this - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-repo-excerpt/5.6/en/linux-installation-yum-repo.html -- and did this:

    yum repolist all | grep mysql
    sudo yum-config-manager --disable mysql56-community
    sudo yum-config-manager --enable mysql57-community

• (This is because both repos were installed)
• Now the client worked - up to the point of start
• The server doesn't start, however, due to a perm issue
• [Here's where I'm stuck]

[someara]

This was actually a bug in a dependency... the yum-mysql-community cookbook.
Upgrade to the latest version of that and you should be good to go

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