[chef] Re: Re: Injecting a resource into another cookbook's recipe

[AJ Christensen < >]

A member of Heavy Water Operations (Chris Roberts, spox) just build a
system that allows arbitrary injection of resources at any time in the
recipe life cycle. Chris had noticed a pattern used like this in the
AWS OpsWorks tool and set out to re-implement.

Check it out. I'll endeavor to pass any feedback his way. [0]

Cheers,

AJ

[0] https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/injector

On 16 April 2013 06:43, steve . 
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> I've run defines and used LWRPs in other recipes -- seems to work, as long
> as the defining cookbook is loaded up earlier in the run list.  However, I
> don't like the idea of leaving it up to the user to figure out whether or
> not they need to add some_random_cookbook to a run list, so I've adopted the
> pattern of "include_recipe 'some_random_cookbook::default'" and simply not
> putting anything of substance in a default recipe that isn't required across
> the entire cookbook.
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> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Kevin Nuckolls 
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> wrote:
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>> Since it's ruby, I assume it's possible to have a resource run within
>> another scope as defined at runtime. I basically ran into a situation where
>> I defined a variable that I used to inject information in a template in a
>> library cookbook, then found that I also wanted access to that variable 
>> from
>> the wrapper cookbook.
>>
>> I could probably put it in a library, but at this point I'm just curious
>> if anyone has done this. Can you run a resource in another cookbook's 
>> recipe
>> if you even wanted to?
>>
>> Not saying this is the correct way to do it, just curious if it's actually
>> possible.
>>
>> -Kevin
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