[chef] Re: My Wishlist: Better Chef-Solo Support

[Seth Chisamore < >]

On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Elliot Murphy 
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 wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Torben Knerr 
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>  wrote:
> Sadly, each of these provide different levels of parity with chef-client, 
> e.g. knife-solo adds search via edelight/chef-solo-search, but this is not 
> supported by the other approaches. I guess all of them support data bags. 
> Not sure if anyone of them already supports environments under chef-solo...
> 
> I had been planning some work thinking that chef-solo-search would work in 
> a vagrant environment by just adding the cookbook - does it not work? I 
> haven't tested yet, but if someone else has already been down this route it 
> might save me from going down a dead end.

Have you taken a look at Fletcher Nichol's searchef [0] (and it's associated 
cookbook [1])? It allows you to stub out the search request at the HTTP 
request level:

# search for nodes
stub_search(:node, "roles:web_node").to_return([
  node_stub("web1.example.com"),
  node_stub("web2.example.com")
])

# search in data bag

stub_search(:users, 'groups:admin').to_return([
  {
    "id" => "adam",
    "comment" => "Adam Administrator",
    "groups" => [
      "admin"
    ],
    "ssh_keys" => [],
    "shell" => "/bin/bash"
  }
])

stub_search(:users, 'groups:admin').to_return([
  data_bag_item("users", "adam")
])

We have been using this a bit internally when running our cookbooks in 
'development' mode, i.e. in Vagrant.

-- 
Seth Chisamore
Software Development Engineer, Opscode, Inc.
IRC, Skype, Twitter, Github: schisamo

[0] - https://github.com/fnichol/searchef
[1] - https://github.com/fnichol/chef-searchef