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

[Josiah Kiehl < >]

I wrote this shell script and threw it on my PATH to swap knife configs between servers:

https://gist.github.com/3146979

I create directories in this format: ~/.chef-SERVERNAME

I run knife-config SERVERNAME to swap to the server I want and it creates the correct symlink.

Josiah

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Michael Johnston < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

.chef works like a standard unix dotfile, so my preference is to have a knife directory in each project, and symlink .chef => knife in each project.

When you use knife it will look first in your current working directory for a .chef folder, and then the parent directory recursively until it finds one.

Cheerio,

Michael Johnston

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On 2012-07-26, at 5:32 AM, 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: " target="_blank"> ] 
Sent: 26 July 2012 13:17
To:  " target="_blank">
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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