[chef] Re: Re: How to tell when recipes fail?

[Mike Williams < >]

On 08/11/2010, at 15:49 , Daniel DeLeo wrote:

> Yep, you want a report/exception handler. I started the wiki page for
> this feature earlier this week:
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Exception+and+Report+Handlers
> 
> Also, I've been working on a handler paired with a simple sinatra app
> that stores run history in redis. It's still pretty early going, but
> you can find the source here:
> https://github.com/danielsdeleo/nom_nom_nom

Nice one, thanks Daniel.

Out of interest, why Redis, as opposed to CouchDB?  I was thinking that it 
might make sense to store the result of the last Chef run in the existing 
server data-store, along with everything else, so that (for example) you 
could target failed nodes using "knife".  Are you intentionally trying to 
keep "node status" and "run history" separate?

-- 
cheers, 
Mike Williams