[chef] Re: How Can I Run a recipe twice on the same machine with different settings for each invocation?

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Tom Duckering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering if it's possible to apply a recipe twice on the same machine 
> with different settings.
> 
> The exact reason is that I have a build farm and each agent can only run a 
> single job at a time. I'd therefore like to install more than one agent on 
> each machine. Each agent needs slightly different settings so that they 
> don't clash.
> 
> So I'd like to say, run the agent recipe passing it a parameter to say 
> "agentId=1" and run it again with "agentId=2" and so on.

No, recipes cannot be instantiated more than once. Fortunately LWRPs can and 
are very easy to write if you already have a working recipe :-)

--Noah

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