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

[Adam Jacob < >]

This is normal. The way Chef runs work is described here:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Anatomy+of+a+Chef+Run

Skip the "Synchronize Cookbooks" step for Solo.

Chef will always load the Libraries, Resources, Providers and
Attributes from every cookbook in the cookbook_path (in solo, that
means every cookbook you distribute.) The reason is that you can:

A) Manipulate the run list from within an attribute file
B) Use libraries to make all sorts of early stage decisions
C) Have cookbooks that do nothing but load libraries, resources, or
providers that get consumed by other cookbooks

With a Chef Server, the dependency resolver will handle getting the
set of cookbooks needed to each client - with solo, this is on you.

Best,
Adam

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Allan Wind
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 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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> <http://lifeintegrity.com>
>



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