[chef] Re: Life cycle of a chef run

[Adam Jacob < >]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Tim Uckun 
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 wrote:
> Is there a way to wrap some code around the chef run?

Not yet - we have an open Feature Proposal that has some examples of
how you can get this functionality today, though:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/After+hooks

> I have two specific goals.
>
> 1. Catch exceptions and email them to me.
>
> 2. Send some data to my monitoring service after the run (if nothing
> else just the fact that the run took place and went OK but I would
> like to include other data from ohai).

In both these cases, you'll want to have a recipe that is at the tail
end of your run.  Have it walk the collection (like in the example in
the After+Hooks) and go nuts.  Stick it in a ruby block and inspect
whether each resource is "updated" to get end-of-run information about
what happened.

Improving this kind of reporting is definitely on them map.

Adam

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