undefined method `sysctl' for cookbook: os-hardening about chef-os-hardening HOT 3 CLOSED

@oneandoneis2 thanks for raising the issue. We switched to the sysctl implementation of chef in #228. This is leading to the issue on your side. I'll have a look. As a workaround for now you can pin the cookbook to the major version 3 on your side, like

# metadata.rb

depends 'chef-os-hardening', '~> 3.2.1'

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@oneandoneis2 is chef -v maybe from your development system? I see in your packer output chef 13:

    amazon-ebs: System Info:
    amazon-ebs: ------------
    amazon-ebs: chef_version=13.8.5           <----------------------------------------
    amazon-ebs: platform=ubuntu
    amazon-ebs: platform_version=18.04
    amazon-ebs: ruby=ruby 2.4.3p205 (2017-12-14 revision 61247) [x86_64-linux]
    amazon-ebs: program_name=chef-client worker: ppid=1587;start=13:24:54;
    amazon-ebs: executable=/opt/chef/bin/chef-client

Chef 13 is EOL already for a while, with chef-os-hardening 4.0.0 we dropped the support of chef 13.

If you want to continue using chef 13, you should pin the cookbook version like in the example above.

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Thanks for the quick replies!

Pinning to the previous version does indeed fix things for now. I'd missed that packer was still running the v13 chef - guess it's time to write up an upgrade ticket!

Cheers!

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