[chef] Re: Knife search recipe and recipes results

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, November 9, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Alfredo Palhares wrote:

Hello Chefs,

$ knife search node "recipe:nagios\:\:server"

0 items found

$ knife search node "recipes:nagios\:\:server"

1 items found

Node Name: nagios-new.sbni.com

Environment: production

FQDN: nagios-new.sbni.com

IP: 10.0.0.65

Run List: role[monitoring], role[munin_server], recipe[sshd::default], recipe[monit::nagios]

Roles: monitoring, munin_server, base, nagios_client

Recipes: apache2::default, network::default, nagios::server, nagios::campfire, nagios::pagerduty, monit::default, bashfire::default, monit::nagios, graphite_handler::default, ubuntu::default, build-essential::default, base_packages::default, openssl::default, chef::client, chef::notifiers, chef::delete_validation, users::sysadmins, users::root_users, sudo::default, git::default, munin::client, monit::chef_client, logrotate::default, resolver::default, sshd::default, tmux, vox_motd, static_routes::to_vpc, monit, monit::nrpe, nagios::client, munin::server, munin::f5, sbn_monitoring, nagios::check_latency_from_graphite

Platform: ubuntu 10.04

Tags:

$ knife search node "recipe:icinga\:\:server"

1 items found

Node Name: icinga.vm

Environment: _default

FQDN: icinga.vm

IP: 10.0.2.15

Run List: recipe[apt], recipe[apache2], recipe[icinga::client], recipe[icinga::server]

Roles:

Recipes: apt, apache2, icinga::client, icinga::server

Platform: ubuntu 12.04

Tags:

$ knife search node "recipes:icinga\:\:server"

I was aware that the recipe tag would only return recipes that are explicit in the run list.

But i was not aware that recipes would not return recipes that are in the run list. I always assumed

recipes would return all the recipes, since knife node show shows the recipes that are explicit in

the run list in the recipes tag.

The obvious fix is use using recipe*:recipename.

My question is. Why does this behave like this ? In an design perspective. I dont see any advantages.

Only confusion to what may lead to bad results. Specially if its in 3am and you are waked up by

pagerduty and you run run a knife ssh that does not cover all the machines you need.

PS: Does this apply to role and roles tag too ?

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Regards,

Alfredo Palhares

It's a bit non-obvious. There's a `recipes` (with an "s") automatic attribute that includes all recipes from the expanded run_list (but not from include_recipe). You probably want to search on that instead.

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Daniel DeLeo