default.nginx_upstreams is the same as default[:nginx_upstreams] and default[‘nginx_upstreams’] – the convention is to use 1 of the latter two. And as you are using strings further, use them here too. The way you init nginx_upstreams in attribute file is the same as doing it this way: default[‘nginx_upstreams’][‘service1’] = [‘service1.server.com’] default[‘nginx_upstreams’][‘service2’] = [‘service2.server.com’] And you don’t … Read more
How to copy single file First way I use file statement to copy file (compile-time check) file “/etc/init.d/someService” do owner ‘root’ group ‘root’ mode 0755 content ::File.open(“/home/someService”).read action :create end here : “/etc/init.d/someService” – target file, “/home/someService” – source file Also you can wrap ::File.open(“/home/someService”).read in lazy block … lazy { ::File.open(“/home/someService”).read } … Second … Read more
The Berksfile is Berkshelf specific, while the metadata file is built into Chef. Adding your dependencies to the metadata file allows other applications, like librarian-chef or the supermarket, to read your dependencies as well. Note that Berkshelf reads the dependencies from metadata as well, as long as you add the metadata line to the Berksfile. … Read more
As I see it, any recipe should be able to run on an empty machine on its own. So if some recipe A depends on recipe B run before it, I always use include_recipe. For example: 2 cookbooks, tomcat and java. Tomcat requires java. When some user wants to install tomcat, he may have no … Read more
Is there an advantage over CloudInit? Yes, absolutely, many of them! Sure, you can write top to bottom run once CloudInit scripts to provision a server. But what happens when you need to change a configuration file, add a user, update a package, or install a new package? You will end up logging into servers … Read more