[chef] Chef-Solo Attributes for different url locations

["Gibbons, Daniel (RBI-UK)" < >]

Hi,

 

I’m currently getting started with chef-solo and writing numerous software installer recipes which is working well.  My problem is that I need to specify different base installer locations for different environments. 

 

I have different bat files to initiate chef:

 

UpdateWorkstation.bat

chef-solo -c solo.rb -j workstation.json

 

workstation.json

{

                "run_list": [ "role[workstation]" ]

}

 

With each role I override the MSI locations for example:

Workstation.rb

  "webdeploy" => {

    "options" => "ADDLOCAL=MSDeployFeature,MSDeployUIFeature,DelegationUIFeature,MSDeployShortcuts,DelegationScriptsFeature",

                "baseurl" => "\\\\LOCAL-Servername\\ "

  },

webserver.rb

  "webdeploy" => {

    "options" => "ADDLOCAL=MSDeployFeature,MSDeployUIFeature,DelegationUIFeature,MSDeployShortcuts,DelegationScriptsFeature",

                "baseurl" => "\\\\DEV-DOMAIN-Servername\\ "

  },

 

I’d like a better way of doing this so I could pass a base location override attribute into chef-solo rather than creating lots of roles just for the purpose of specifying a different locations.

 

Thanks

 

Dan

 

 

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