[chef] Re: Template variable for which recipe and template a file was expanded from

[AJ Christensen < >]

both 'cookbook_name' and 'recipe_name' will evaluate in the Recipe DSL.

You can bind them to a template with the standard 'variables' parameter.

--AJ

On 1 August 2012 10:20, William McVey 
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 wrote:
> I'd like to put a notice in the config files managed by chef to inform other
> sysadmins that a particular file is under Chef management and to not make
> ad-hoc changes. This isn't so important on "production" machines, as it's
> understood that those machines have procedures associated with making
> changes, but especially as test, prototype, and even dev machines are folded
> into Chef management, putting in a notice that says "This file originated
> from Chef recipe: COOKBOOK_NAME::RECIPE_NAME from the template file XYZ.erb"
> would be useful. I was wondering if there was already a facility for these
> variables that might already be passed to the template engine, and if not,
> if there was a convenient way to add them across all templates without
> having to hack them into every template resource.
>
>   -- William