[chef] Re: read-only access to data in the chef-repository

[Thom May < >]

there's danryan's spice gem: https://github.com/danryan/spice
which i've used to pull stuff out of databags.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 15:22, Bryan Berry 
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 wrote:
> Dear Chefs,
> I have a question about how to programmatically get read access to the data
> in the chef-repository
> We are a java-heavy shop, which mean than configuration gets baked into
> software in two places, on our jenkins CI server during the .war build
> process and on the target node as well.
> I intend to store all the application configuration details in Chef
> databags, details like:
> target database server:
> database auth credentials
> clustering info
> http port
> https port
> other ports
> I intend to create maven target that grabs such information from the chef
> server
> I found that I can get read-only access from any server that is a
> chef-client
> $ knife search jboss_apps "type:production" -c /etc/chef/client.rb -F json
> I had to add one value to client.rb    to get the above to work
> node_name   'foo.example.com'
> I would love to know how to do this with pure ruby. Any ideas?
> I need to query the chef-server, grab a bunch of values, then throw them
> into jboss-foo.xml.erb template and compile that template. If you fellow
> Chefs see any issues w/ this approach, pls let me know :)