[chef] Re: Re: managing custom apache configs chef

[Clif Smith < >]

You could also specify the data per environment in a data bag:

  "log_level": {
    "production": "debug",
    "development": "info"
  }

cjs

On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:01 AM, Adam Wilbraham 
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 wrote:

> Are you using chef's environments functionality or just wanting to
> rely on a a file on the server?
> 
> I use Chef's environments to dictate which data bag to use in some
> situations - based on that logic you could call a bash function I
> guess:
> 
> # pull the data we need from the encrypted data bag
> secrets_bag = "#{[node.chef_environment]}-secrets"
> Chef::Log.info("Based on the environment I'm using #{secrets_bag} as
> the secrets data bag")
> 
> 
> There is probably a cleaner way to achieve your end result though -
> you probably want something a little more programmatic in your
> httpd.conf.erb template which check's the environment and sets the
> value based on that, rather than relying on bash / sed.
> 
> Wilb
> 
> On 15 August 2012 04:48, Zippy Zeppoli 
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>  wrote:
>> Hi List,
>> Is it possible to do the following with Chef and an httpd.conf file.
>> Here is my logic:
>> 
>> if environment_name (perhaps comes from a file on the system) == PRODUCTION
>> then sed -i s/LogLevel DEBUG/LogLevel INFO/
>> fi
>> 
>> So basically if a server meets some condition, then modify the file that is
>> being managed by chef.
>> 
>> Are there any example recipes/cookbooks to this point?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Z