[chef-dev] Re: Re: Chef run_status for individual cookbooks

[Nathen Harvey < >]

Additionally, I'd want to understand a bit more about your use case.  Chef works in a test-and-repair mode so all of your cookbooks should be able to be applied multiple times without causing any harm. If no changes are required to bring Chef in-line with the policy you've specified, Chef will not make any changes. 

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

The divisions between cookbooks and/or recipes don’t really exist once all the resources are loaded. There is just a list of resource objects in the collection and Chef converges them in order. You could try to reverse-engineer the information you are looking for since each resource does track what recipe it was defined in, but this isn’t directly available.

—Noah

On Jul 13, 2014, at 11:51 PM, "> wrote:

> I've configured a machine as chef-solo and I executed chef-solo with a set of
> cookbooks along with a report handler which will send mail about the run_status
> (success or failed) of chef-solo execution. The problem here is if I ran three
> cookbooks say apache,java and mysql and apache,java installed successfully and
> mysql got failed.In this case,I'm getting the whole run_status as failed
> eventhough two cookbooks installed successfully. Instead of getting the whole
> status, Is there any method to retrieve the successfully installed cookbooks
> and the cookbooks that failed to execute?