[chef] Re: Re: Delay or force rending of template

[Adam Durana < >]

Thanks for the thoughts.  I did originally try making sure the recipe was at the end of the run list and that solved the problem, but it seemed a little too fragile because someone could unknowingly break it by changing the order or adding more to the run list.  I didn't have the action defined as :nothing for the template, so that was definitely causing a problem, but delaying sending the create action until the end of the run didn't seem to solve the problem either.  I didn't dig too much into it, because I found out that the problem I was trying to solve by building this attribute across multiple recipes was a problem that I could solve with override_attributes in multiple roles and just letting Chef merge the attributes, which it seems to do by default.

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Seth Chisamore < "> > wrote:

Have you tried putting the recipe that renders the template last in the run list? Also be sure to set the action on the /etc/sudoers template to :nothing so it doesn't take action until the end of the chef run when all of the :create notifications fire.

-Seth

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On May 16, 2011, at 11:41, Adam Durana < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

I'm attempting to render a template with a variable based on a node attribute.  The attribute is an array that's built up across different recipes.  What I'm finding is that the rendered template doesn't include all the values in the attribute.  It appears that the rendered template only includes the the values that are in the attribute when the template is rendered.  So it seems like some values go into the attribute, the template gets rendered, and then the rest of the values get put into the attribute but the template isn't re-rendered.  I know all the correct values are making it into the attribute because I see what I'd expect for the attribute when editing the node with knife.

Is there some way to ensure that a template isn't rendered until the end of a Chef client run or to force a template to be re-rendered?  I've tried sending create notifications to the template resource, but that doesn't seem to work.

To be specific, I'm working with the sudo cookbook from https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/tree/master/sudo and the node attribute I'm building up is the list of users used when rendering the template for /etc/sudoers.  So I'm ending up with a /etc/sudoers file that doesn't include all the usernames I've put into the attribute.

Thanks,

Adam