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

[Jorge Espada < >]

Also you might find  this gist [0] form Eric Wolfe useful.

[0] https://gist.github.com/1302009

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Jorge Espada



On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Jason Perry 
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> Check out knife-block, that is what I use and like it a lot.
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>   -- Jay
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> On Jul 26, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Josiah Kiehl 
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> I wrote this shell script and threw it on my PATH to swap knife configs
> between servers:
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> https://gist.github.com/3146979
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> I create directories in this format: ~/.chef-SERVERNAME
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> I run knife-config SERVERNAME to swap to the server I want and it creates
> the correct symlink.
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> Josiah
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> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Michael Johnston 
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>> .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.
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>> 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.
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>> Cheerio,
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>> Michael Johnston
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>> On 2012-07-26, at 5:32 AM, Sullivan, Jon Paul wrote:
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>> Simplest thing would likely be to add the following to your knife.rb:
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>> cookbook_path ENV[‘CHEF_REPO’]
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>> Thhis would set your cookbook path to the value of the CHEF_REPO variable
>> in your environment.
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>> You could also set a default in case you don’t have it set:
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>> cb_path = ENV[‘CHEF_REPO’] || ~/cookbooks
>> cookbook_path cb_path
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>> From: Cassiano Leal 
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>> Sent: 26 July 2012 13:17
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>> Subject: [chef] Chef repo environment variable?
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>> Hello,
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>> 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
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>> Thanks,
>> Jon-Paul Sullivan J Cloud Services - @hpcloud
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