[chef] Re: Why does chef-solo load all cookbooks?

[Alex Soto < >]

It's been a while since I used solo, but if I recall correctly, it's a 
side-affect of not having a server that pushes only the cookbooks you need 
because solo using your entire cookbook repo that is checked out locally.


On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Allan Wind wrote:

> I am spinning up a virtual machine for testing recipies, and 
> chef-solo failed on a couple of cookbooks that required gems not 
> installed on the host yet.  debug output shows that chef-solo is 
> loading all the cookbooks.  Why?  The run list is empty as 
> indicated.
> 
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:09 -0400] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.4 ***
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Building node object for 
> localhost.localdomain
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Extracting run list from JSON 
> attributes provided on command line
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Setting the run_list to 
> ["role[default]"] from JSON
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Applying attributes from json file
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Platform is centos version 5.6
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Run List is [role[default]]
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Run List expands to []
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Starting Chef Run for 
> localhost.localdomain
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: No chefignore file found at 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/chefignore no files will be ignored
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loading cookbook libraries's 
> library file: /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/libraries/libraries/find_first.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loading cookbook httpd's library 
> file: /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/httpd/libraries/domains.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loading cookbook cpan's providers 
> from /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/cpan/providers/package.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loaded contents of 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/cpan/providers/package.rb into a provider named 
> cpan_package defined in Chef::Provider::CpanPackage
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook sudo's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/sudo/attributes/default.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loading Attribute users
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook mysql's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/mysql/attributes/default.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook munin's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/munin/attributes/default.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook nagios's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/nagios/attributes/client.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook hosts's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/hosts/attributes/default.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook timezone's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/timezone/attributes/default.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook yum's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/yum/attributes/default.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook users's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/users/attributes/default.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook ssh's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/ssh/attributes/default.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: I am not loading attribute file 
> users, because I have already seen it.
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook postfix's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/postfix/attributes/aliases.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: I am not loading attribute file 
> users, because I have already seen it.
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook postfix's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/postfix/attributes/default.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Node localhost.localdomain loading 
> cookbook httpd's attribute file 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks/httpd/attributes/default.rb
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Loading from cookbook_path: 
> /opt/chef/current/cookbooks
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Converging node 
> localhost.localdomain
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.048032 
> seconds
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Cleaning the checksum cache
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Running report handlers
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] INFO: Report handlers complete
> [Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:10 -0400] DEBUG: Exiting
> 
> 
> /Allan
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> Allan Wind
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