Using Chef Client Provisioner fails

[Pietto Vasco]

im trying to add the chef-client to my packer builds. To do this im using 

{

  "type": "chef-client",

  "server_url": "https://mychefserver.com/"

}

Is my results

 amazon-ebs: [2019-03-06T15:06:12+00:00] WARN: Failed to read the private key /etc/chef/validation.pem: #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - /etc/chef/validation.pem>

    amazon-ebs:

    amazon-ebs: ================================================================================

    amazon-ebs: Chef encountered an error attempting to create the client "packer-5c7fe1db-8e69-16d3-e6a6-a3f654ca501a"

    amazon-ebs: ================================================================================

    amazon-ebs:

    amazon-ebs: Private Key Not Found:

    amazon-ebs: ----------------------

    amazon-ebs: Your private key could not be loaded. If the key file exists, ensure that it is

    amazon-ebs: readable by chef-client.

    amazon-ebs:

    amazon-ebs: Relevant Config Settings:

    amazon-ebs: -------------------------

    amazon-ebs: validation_key "/etc/chef/validation.pem"

    amazon-ebs:

    amazon-ebs: System Info:

    amazon-ebs: ------------

    amazon-ebs: chef_version=14.10.9

    amazon-ebs: ruby=ruby 2.5.3p105 (2018-10-18 revision 65156) [x86_64-linux]

    amazon-ebs: program_name=/usr/bin/chef-client

    amazon-ebs: executable=/opt/chef/bin/chef-client

    amazon-ebs:

    amazon-ebs:

    amazon-ebs: Running handlers:

    amazon-ebs: [2019-03-06T15:06:12+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers

    amazon-ebs: Running handlers complete

    amazon-ebs: [2019-03-06T15:06:12+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete

    amazon-ebs: Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated in 01 seconds

    amazon-ebs: [2019-03-06T15:06:12+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

    amazon-ebs: [2019-03-06T15:06:12+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report

    amazon-ebs: [2019-03-06T15:06:12+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::PrivateKeyMissing: I cannot read /etc/chef/validation.pem, which you told me to use to sign requests!

    amazon-ebs: Creating configuration file 'knife.rb'

==> amazon-ebs: Cleaning up chef node...

    amazon-ebs: WARN: Failed to read the private key /tmp/packer-chef-client/mykey.pem: #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - /tmp/packer-chef-client/mykey.pem>

    amazon-ebs: ERROR: Your private key could not be loaded from /tmp/packer-chef-client/mykey.pem

    amazon-ebs: Check your configuration file and ensure that your private key is readable

==> amazon-ebs: Terminating the source AWS instance...

==> amazon-ebs: Cleaning up any extra volumes...

==> amazon-ebs: No volumes to clean up, skipping

==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary security group...

==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary keypair...

Build 'amazon-ebs' errored: Error cleaning up chef node: Failed to cleanup node: Non-zero exit status. See output above for more info.

Command: sudo knife node delete packer-5c7fe1db-8e69-16d3-e6a6-a3f654ca501a -y -c /tmp/packer-chef-client/knife.rb

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:

--> amazon-ebs: Error cleaning up chef node: Failed to cleanup node: Non-zero exit status. See output above for more info.

Command: sudo knife node delete packer-5c7fe1db-8e69-16d3-e6a6-a3f654ca501a -y -c /tmp/packer-chef-client/knife.rb

Here is my json:

{

    "builders": [

        {

            "type": "amazon-ebs",

           "access_key": "access",

           "secret_key": "secret",

           "region": "us-east-1",

            "source_ami": "ami-0080e4c5bc078760e",

            "instance_type": "t2.micro",

            "ssh_username": "ec2-user",

            "ami_name": "packerchef"

          }

  ],

"provisioners": [

    {

       "type": "chef-client",

       "server_url": "https://api.chef.io/organizations/myorg",

       "client_key": ",mykey.pem"

           }

     ]

}

[Gangadhar]

client_key": ",mykey.pem" in this is it , needed before mykey word?

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