[chef] Re: RE: Chef repo environment variable?

[Cassiano Leal < >]

Interesting. I would have liked for knife to know where knife.rb is located based on that environment variable, though.

Any way to tell knife where to find knife.rb? I have different knife.rb's for each context. :)

On Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 09:32, Sullivan, Jon Paul wrote:

Simplest thing would likely be to add the following to your knife.rb:

 

cookbook_path ENV[‘CHEF_REPO’]

 

Thhis would set your cookbook path to the value of the CHEF_REPO variable in your environment.

 

You could also set a default in case you don’t have it set:

 

cb_path = ENV[‘CHEF_REPO’] || ~/cookbooks

cookbook_path cb_path

 

From: Cassiano Leal [ ">mailto: ]
Sent: 26 July 2012 13:17
To: ">
Subject: [chef] Chef repo environment variable?

 

Hello,

 

I have been wondering, but couldn't find anything on the interwebs… Is there a way to point knife to the correct chef-repo path via an environment variable, say CHEF_HOME, or CHEF_REPO?

 

The reason I ask is that I have several contexts in my workstation (work, private project 1, private project 2, …). I use shell aliases to set several environment variables for each context (AWS keys and paths, other stuff), and when I open a new shell I just call the alias to set the context. 

 

Any pointers?

 

Thanks!

-- 

Cassiano Leal

 

Thanks,
Jon-Paul Sullivan J Cloud Services - @hpcloud

                                       

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