[chef] using web_app

[Brian Smith < >]

I would like to use the web_app definition to deploy multiple apache vhosts on a system and change the prefix depending on the environment.

I am thinking to do something like this, I set the attributes file as such:

case #{node[:app_environment]}

when "VirtualBox"

  set #{node[:apache][:server_name]} = "vbox.domain.com"

  set #{node[:apache][:server_aliases]} = [ "vbox1.domain.com " ]

when "Development"

  set #{node[:apache][:server_name]} = "dev.domain.com"

  set #{node[:apache][:server_aliases]} = [ "dev1.domian.com " ]

else

  set #{node[:apache][:server_name]} = "fail.domain.com"

  set #{node[:apache][:server_aliases]} = [ "fail1.domain.com " ]

end

And then do something like this as the recipe:

web_app "#{node[:apache][:server_name]}" do

  enable :true

  server_name "#{node[:apache][:server_name]}"

  server_aliases "#{node[:apache][:server_aliases]}"

  docroot "/var/www/#{node[:apache][:server_name]}"

  template "web_app.conf.erb"

  cookbook "apache2"

  mode "0644"

  notifies :restart, resources(:service => "apache2")

end

Anyone doing something like this in a working cookbook definition?