[chef] Re: Re: Re: conditional in recipe to evaluate node name not working (as expected)

[AJ Christensen < >]

Please don't do this!

Put the environment into an attribute (it may already be in one:
bonus) and simplify the whole section:

```
node.default['zookeeper']['environment'] = "dev"
env = node['zookeeper']['environment'] # shorten the interpolated lvar

template "/opt/zookeeper/conf/zk.conf" do
  source "zk.#{env}.conf.erb"
  owner "root"
  group "root"
  mode "0644"
end
```

Cheers,

AJ

On 15 March 2013 07:59, Jeremy Koerber 
<
 >
 wrote:
> That did the trick. Thanks!
>
> Working block is:
>
> case node.name
> when /^qa/
>
>  template "/opt/zookeeper/conf/zk.conf" do
>   source "zk.qa.conf.erb"
>   owner "root"
>   group "root"
>   mode "0644"
>  end
> else
>  template "/opt/zookeeper/conf/zk.conf" do
>   source "zk.prod.conf.erb"
>   owner "root"
>   group "root"
>   mode "0644"
>  end
> end
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Adam Mielke 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>>
>> A quick check in shef (version 10.24) tells me that node["name"] returns
>> nil, but node.name gives the expected result:
>>
>> Ohai2u 
>> 
 
>> chef > node['name']
>>  => nil
>> chef > node.name
>>  => "mynode"
>>
>> --
>> Adam Mielke
>> System Engineer
>> University of Minnesota
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Jeremy Koerber 
>> <
 >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I’m trying to modify the community memcached recipe such that it will
>>> source one template file if the node name starts with qa, and another if 
>>> the
>>> node name is anything else. But no matter what I try, the recipe seems to
>>> ignore the conditional and just goes with the “else” block. So the result 
>>> is
>>> that my nodes that are named qa* are getting my production template 
>>> sourced.
>>> I even tried just setting the node name conditional to the exact name of a
>>> specific node, and still that node ends up with the default template, not
>>> the QA one specified in the conditional. Here’s the conditional:
>>>
>>> case node["name"]
>>> when "qa*"
>>>  template "/opt/zookeeper/conf/zk.conf" do
>>>   source "zk.qa.conf.erb"
>>>   owner "root"
>>>   group "root"
>>>   mode "0644"
>>>  end
>>> else
>>>  template "/opt/zookeeper/conf/zk.conf" do
>>>   source "zk.prod.conf.erb"
>>>   owner "root"
>>>   group "root"
>>>   mode "0644"
>>>  end
>>> end
>>>
>>> I also have these nodes in a separate chef environment called “qa”, but
>>> I’m not having any luck keying off that either. Any ideas? Here’s the 
>>> output
>>> of a ‘knife node show’ for the node in question:
>>>
>>> knife node show -Fj qa-memcached01-1-i-91e11be3
>>> {
>>>   "name": "qa-memcached01-1-i-91e11be3",
>>>   "chef_environment": "qa",
>>>   "run_list": [
>>>     "role[memcached]"
>>>   ],
>>>   "normal": {
>>>     "memcached": {
>>>       "memory": "384"
>>>     },
>>>     "tags": [
>>>
>>>     ]
>>>   }
>>> }
>>>
>>> Thanks, Jeremy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jeremy Koerber
>>> Director - Tech Ops
>>> branchout.com/jeremy.koerber
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jeremy Koerber
> Director - Tech Ops
> branchout.com/jeremy.koerber
>
>
>