[chef] Re: CHEF-13 - dry-run / no-op mode

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:28 AM, jon stuart 
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> I was wondering about the no-op stuff hinted at in CHEF-13. For me the
> ability to eyeball proposed changes on (a sample of) nodes is pretty
> important, both for avoiding silly mistakes whilst learning the ropes
> and as a checkpoint before rolling out scarily large changes.

It is not implemented yet. I believe the problem is that you would
have to write support for it into every provider individually. In the
interim, you would have to bail on all providers that didn't support
it. Which while running in noop mode is probably fine because you
weren't going to do anything anyway, it would take a concerted effort
to get a full noop run working all the way through.

> Sorry if this is a FAQ or similar, I couldn't find much mention of it
> other than the ticket.

No worries, that's what we're all here for.

Bryan