[chef] Re: Re: Using Role attributes inside bash resource

[Yonah Russ < >]

Hi,

I'm having similar issues in another context.

I have a role defined (approximately) as follows:

{

  "name":"ed-mobile",

  "chef_type":"role",

  "json_class": "Chef::Role",

  "default_attributes": {

    "webconfig":{

        "server_path":"/opt/local/www/",

        "newrelic": {

            "key" : "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",

            "appname" : "WWW"

        }

    }

  },

  "description": "Static Mobile Sites or Applications",

  "run_list": [

                ....

  ]

}

In my default recipe I have this resource:

template "/opt/local/etc/nrsysmond.cfg" do

  source "nrsysmond.cfg.erb"

  owner "root"

  group "root"

  mode "0644"

  notifies :restart, resources(:service => "nrsysmond")

end

The template tries to use the role attribute as follows:

license_key=<%= node['webconfig']['newrelic']['key'] %>

I get the following error:

on line #16

 14: # Default: none

 15: #

 16: license_key=<%= node['webconfig']['newrelic']['key'] %>

 17:

 18: #

[2013-06-16T16:02:00+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers

[2013-06-16T16:02:00+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete

[2013-06-16T16:02:00+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /etc/chef/chef-solo/chef-stacktrace.out

[2013-06-16T16:02:00+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Mixin::Template::TemplateError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

If I move

"webconfig":{

            "newrelic": {

                "key" : "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",

                "appname" : "WWW"

            }

        },

into my json attributes file instead, everything works perfectly.

Any ideas?

Yonah

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Yonah Russ < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Here is the resource:

bash "install_newrelic" do

  not_if {!Dir.glob('/etc/newrelic').empty?}

  user "root"

  cwd "/opt/local"

  code <<-EOH

    /usr/bin/wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=5 -np -A 'newrelic-php5-*-solaris.tar.gz' http://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/release/

    /opt/local/bin/tar -xvzf newrelic-php5-*-solaris.tar.gz

    /opt/local/bin/rm newrelic-php5-*-solaris.tar.gz

    /opt/local/bin/chown -R root:root newrelic-php5-*

    (cd newrelic-php5-*; NR_INSTALL_SILENT=true NR_INSTALL_KEY=#{node['webconfig']['newrelic']['key']} ./newrelic-install install)

  EOH

  notifies :restart, resources(:service => "php54-fpm")

end

We tried chef 11 and, unfortunately, so much broke that it just isn't an option for us.

It would set us back weeks to rewrite, test and redeploy everything :(

Thanks

Yonah

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Steven Danna < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

On 6/5/13 5:25 AM, Yonah Russ wrote:

> When a recipe tries to use one of the role attributes inside the code, I
> get an error:
> /tmp/chef-script20130605-45783-1h9fd78: line 6:
> Chef::Node::Attribute:0x0000000628e1b8: No such file or directory

Could you post the bash resource that is causing this problem?

>
> Is this a known issue?
> Am I doing something wrong?

Errors such as this is one of the reasons that Dan reworked much of the
attribute code for Chef 11 [0].  The typical solution is to coerce the
attribute into a well-known type using #to_s, #to_hash, or similar
methods which are easier to use elsewhere.

Cheers,

Steven


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[0]
http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/02/05/chef-11-in-depth-attributes-changes/