[chef] Re: Revisting an old idea

[KC Braunschweig < >]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:23 PM, John E. Vincent (lusis)
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> run and saved globally for the whole run. The thought was that we
> frequently perform the exact same search across different recipes. For
> instance in ours we have this at the top of almost every recipe:

It's an interesting idea and there's probably a use case for it. For
your case though, why not just do the search in your base role early
in the run_list and stick the results somewhere other cookbooks can
access it so they don't have to do search at all? That element of your
base role effectively defines an API that other cookbooks you use
internally can use to get that data. You could just stick it in the
node object but you'd probably want to remove it before the node.save
just to ensure that you never accidentally use stale info (unless
that's ok).

KC