A cookbook is the fundamental unit of configuration and policy distribution in Chef.
Questions tagged [cookbook]
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How to add a cron job entry using Chef recipe
All,
I have a shell script that is creates tar file of logs. I have embeded the recipe in the cookbook.
The recipe looks like this :
cookbook_file "/var/create-tar.sh" do
source "create-tar.sh"
mode 0755
end
execute "create tar files of logs older…
cloudbud
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Writing file with multiple Chef cookbooks all targeting the same file
I have a situation where I have three cookbooks, each with a template resource that writes to an /etc/hosts file.
Rather than overwriting, I would like to append:
The first cookbook creates /etc/hosts file and writes lines 1,2,3.
The second…
Jacques Betancourt
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Can we override the Chef default path while deploying rails app
I am trying to deploy rails app through chef . code deployed successfully ,but bundle install throwing error for specific gems , When installed manually gem installs without any issues , as per the chef error i got to know that , to execute bundle…
mbdvg
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Unable to install librarian-chef cookbooks on Windows 7
I am trying to install librarian-chef cookbooks at the Windows prompt. I have already installed librarian-chef using gem install librarian-chef. However I am getting this error:
C:\Users\crmpicco\Documents\vagrant-chef-deploy>librarian-chef…
crmpicco
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Chef knife site download return ContentLengthMismatch errors
After I upgraded my chef client on mac to version 11.10.4, I couldn't use knife command to download cookbooks. I have latest knife version and latest xcode 5.1 for Mac. Does anyone know what seem to be the issue?
$ knife cookbook site list
ERROR:…
Nam Nguyen
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How to append the content in the file for chef cookbook?
I'm new in chef and cookbook.
I'm creating a cookbook, and I want to append at the end of file some contents (text).
At the moment, I'm using:
file "#{node['dir']}/#{params[:name]}.txt" do
content "my full text"
end
but I must always append in…
pasquy73
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Execute two roles and also Can we add two recipes in runlist?
I have created a role myrole inside that i added two receipes under run list
"run_list" : [
"recipe[sala::default],[sala::test]"
]
But it is giving me error.
So later i want to do
knife bootstarp ipaddress -x user -i key --sudo - r…
Suresh Sala
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No space left on device - write chef remote_file
I get a strange error when a chef-client tries to execute remote_resource for a big local file.
From stack trace I guess ruby copy files itself. My disk has a lot of free space. Also var and tmp folders has at leas 2 Gbytes. If I do this job myself…
Daniil Iaitskov
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how to order query execution with opscode chef and database cookbook
I'm looking for some help on defining a priority in my chef recipe.
The recipe is supposed to import a sql dump in a database then execute 2 mysql queries against the database.
I'm using Chef Solo.
The first mysql_database action :query importing…
user2793488
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Using modified opsworks deploy cookbook immutable object error
I'm attempting to add some custom code into the opsworks deploy cookbook, related to the before_migrate step:
before_migrate do
link_tempfiles_to_current_release
deploy_version = Time.now.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
if node['deploy_app'] ==…
user2390053
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Opscode Chef - way to cleanup /shared/cached-copy
We using Opscode Chef in our pipeline and we notice that the deployment (see http://docs.opscode.com/resource_deploy.html) creates a complete copy of our sourcecode to /shared/cached-copy
It already has nearly thousand complete versions of it (not…
Calmon
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ruby chef directive : include_attribute vs. include_attributes
I saw this code at chef attributes file.
include_recipe "deployment"
include_attribute "postgresql"
include_attribute "redis"
include_attributes "uaa"
include_attributes "service_lifecycle"
What's different? include_attribute vs.…
plhn
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Setting up hashicorp vault in production with chef docker resource
I am trying to setup hashicorp vault in production with chef cookbook. This is what I have in my recipes/default.rb
directory '/vault-docker' do
action :create
end
cookbook_file '/vault-docker/config.hcl' do
source 'config.hcl'
action…
Hakeem Baba
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Install Java JDK 1.8 on CentOS using Chef
I'm trying to install Java JDK 1.8 on CentOS 7 using a Chef Cookbook.
I'm using Chef DK on Windows 10 and I've donloaded from https://downloads.chef.io/chefdk
In my Berksfile I've
source 'https://supermarket.chef.io'
metadata
My Kitchen.yml is…
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How may I determine Java version from inside the Chef custom resource without passing it as a parameter?
I am creating a custom resource and would like to make it as self-contained as possible. I need to determine java version that is going to be available on the node so I will be able to setup JAVA_OPTS variable properly, depending on Java version. I…
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