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

[Jesse Nelson < >]

I've just used a simple alias and function in my profile to swap chef
servers by managing ~/.chef as a link. This was what I've been using
since the early days of knife(before environments), and its worked
quite well for me.

https://gist.github.com/3185198


On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Jorge Espada 
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> Also you might find  this gist [0] form Eric Wolfe useful.
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> [0] https://gist.github.com/1302009
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> --
> Jorge Espada
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> 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.
>>
>>   -- Jay
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>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Josiah Kiehl 
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>>  wrote:
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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.
>>
>> Josiah
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>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Michael Johnston 
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>> 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
>>> 
 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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:
 
>>> 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
>>>
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