[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: template source from databag

[Adam Jacob < >]

Just point the "source" parameter to the local template.

template "/tmp/config.conf" do
 local true
 source "/tmp/config.conf.erb"
end

That's taken from the second example for the template resource on the wiki: 
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Resources#Resources-Template

Best,
Adam

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On Monday, September 5, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Stanislav Bogatyrev wrote:

> In case of storing each policy template for each cluster in cookbook
> we get bloated recipe with lot of duplicated information in it. And
> also we need to update the recipe each time the new cluster is added.
> I want to have something reusable.
> So I figured out how to get policy template on local disk. How to
> point template resource to use it?
> Thank You!
> 
> 2011/9/5 Adam Jacob 
> <
 
>  
> (mailto:
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> > Is this because you're going to be generating the templates
> > themselves? Why not store the templates in the cookbook?
> > 
> > Adam
> > 
> > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Stanislav Bogatyrev
> > <
 
> >  
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> >  wrote:
> > > The actual template to be processed. I want to store pacamker policy
> > > templates in databags.
> > > 
> > > 2011/9/2 Brian Akins 
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> > >  
> > > (mailto:
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> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Stanislav Bogatyrev 
> > > > <
 
> > > >  
> > > > (mailto:
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> > > > wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there any way to get template source not only from file in
> > > > > cookbook, but from variable or databag item?
> > > > 
> > > > You mean the actual template or the location of the template?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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