[chef] Re: Re: Problems with log stash cookbook and environment attributes

[Cassiano Leal < >]

On August 8, 2013 at 16:13:52, Daniel DeLeo ( ) wrote:

On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Cassiano Leal wrote:

I’m having trouble using the community logstash cookbook with environment parameters.

When it tries to create shipper.conf it fails here:

Chef::Mixin::Template::TemplateError (comparison of String with Chef::Node::ImmutableMash failed) on line #13:
 
 11:   }
 12:   <% else %>
 13:     <%= LogstashConf.section_to_str(node['logstash']['agent']['inputs']) %>
 14:   <% end -%>
 15: }

The full stack trace and the environment JSON can be found here: https://gist.github.com/cassianoleal/6116305

I have successfully used this cookbook on another environment when setting [:logstash][:agent][:inputs] via node.override in a recipe. What’s wrong with this approach?

Cheers,

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Cassiano Leal

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If you haven't figured this out yet, it looks like you're ending up in a situation where the log stash cookbook has an array like:

  [ "string", "another string", {:attribute_data => "some data"}]

… And then calls #sort on that array. This implies that `node['logstash']['agent']['inputs']` is expected to be a string but is a hash instead. Or something like that.

I haven’t. I took a different path.

What you’re saying makes a lot of sense, though. This:

  "override_attributes": {
    "logstash": {
      "agent": {
        "inputs": {
          "file": {
            ...
          }
        },

confirms that node[:logstash][:agent][:inputs] really is a Hash.

Thanks for the information, I’ll keep that in mind next time I do that! :)

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Daniel DeLeo

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Cassiano Leal

http://cassianoleal.com

http://twitter.com/cassianoleal