[chef] Re: Re: "yum install xxxx" or "apt-get install xxxx" analogy for chef?

[Tom H < >]

On 21/02/12 11:29, Akzhan Abdulin wrote:

" type="cite">Oops. You are right. chef-client -j is very unattractive option.

Yeah, I ended up with a wrapper script that is sort of a hack to append some role or recipe string to the run_list and write it to /etc/chef/first-boot.json and run chef-client  -j /etc/chef/first-boot.json   and then remove it after the script has run.

I considered temporarily changing the run_list to just the recipe I wanted using the -j options, but it deletes all the local cookbooks from the cache that are not included, so the next run of the full list takes ages to re-download etc.

I suspect the answer is involves tinkering with knife to invoke shef or something like that.

Tom

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For our developer boxes, typically the users won't know chef, and won't have a locally configured knife, and these guys would be used to installing tomcat or some package using the distro specific tool (apt/yum/emerge).

However for a bunch of packages/services we have chef recipes specifically to get tomcat6 or others onto CentOS 5.6 boxes e.g. recipe[tomcat::tomcat6]

Obviously its possible to create a /etc/chef/tomcat.json file and run it as chef-client -j /etc/chef/tomcat.json such as
{  "run_list" : ["recipe[tomcat::tomcat6]"]  }

Or even to open "shef -z" session and apply the recipe interactively. Or even to run knife as the chef-client user with the client.pem and client.rb file...

However I am looking for something that can be easily applied as a one-liner... does such a thing exist as a plugin for chef-client?


chef-client -r "recipe[somecookbook::somerecipe]" would be perfect... ;-)


Thanks
Tom