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

[AJ Christensen < >]

This stubbed search thing is sick - I had a similar idea as the
extension point to bolting in more advanced discovery mechanisms
(intercept search/databag lookup, translate to Super Discovery Thing)

Very cool -- will play with this more. Thanks Fletcher!

--AJ

On 21 February 2013 10:44, Fletcher Nichol 
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> On Wednesday, 20 February, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Seth Chisamore wrote:
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>> On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Elliot Murphy 
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>> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Torben Knerr 
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>> > 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 (http://web1.example.com)"),
>> node_stub("web2.example.com (http://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
>
> Thanks Seth!
>
> Searchef is still reasonably young (started last Tuesday) but was written 
> to help with testing cookbooks that depend heavily on search, but are being 
> exercised in solo mode. Think stubbing (dumb responses) rather than 
> emulating search. Now that it's in the wild, I'll push the cookbook to the 
> community site :)
>
> Fletcher.
>
> p.s. While stubbing out search responses might be clever, please also 
> consider adding solo mode detection with `Chef::Config[:solo]` if the 
> cookbook is meant for public consumption. Sometimes looking in a node 
> attribute for your data is a great alternative for solo. After all, don't 
> forget FC003 [0] :)
>
> [0] - http://acrmp.github.com/foodcritic/#FC003