[chef] Re: Can chef parse the attribute list and handle it while creating templates

[Alex Corley < >]

We currently do this with a set of attributes that are contained in a 
Role definition.

By leveraging the rsyslog cookbook, we template the filenames to be watched.

{ "file" : "/opt/zenoss/log/#{node.name}/zeneventd.log" }

filepath=logfile['file'].sub('#{node.name}', node.name)

Might not be the cleanest, but it scales, and we re-used the ruby/dsl 
template format to make it recognizable on-site in the role files.

- alex

On 05/14/2013 11:19 AM, 

 
 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> I have an attribute which I must pass as list and update it in the template
> file But it seems the attributes are taken as literal string during chef-run.
> Is there a way to pass a list and handle it in templates  ?
>
>
>
> default['zabbix']['agent']['servers_active'] = "hostname"
>
>
> default['zabbix']['agent']['servers_active'] = "[ "hostname1", "hostname2" ]"
>
> Template where this list need to
> ServerActive=<%= node.zabbix.agent.server_active %>
> Desired Output
> ServerActive=hostname1,hostname2
>
> thanks for your response in advance!
> Tarun


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