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

[jon stuart < >]

Bryan McLellan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:28 AM, jon stuart 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>> 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.
> 

Ah right, thanks for the clue-in. So definitely in the non-easy category!

I'll continue to play with Chef regardless, its strengths demand it :)

Regards, jon.