[chef] Re: Different data_bags in production and test-kitchen

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 2/19/14 9:47 PM, 

 
 wrote:
> Hi, I'm using test-kitchen with vagrant, and having trouble with the users
> cookbook from opscode.
>
> Suppose we have a bunch of 'users' data bag items and some of them have 'sudo'
> in the array of groups. If we have a recipe that has users_manage "sudo",
> kitchen converge removes the vagrant user from sudo group because we don't 
> have
> the vagrant user in our data_bags.
>
> I could come up with a few work arounds:
>
> A. Add vagrant user in our data_bags
> B. Modify our cookbook so that users_manage "sudo" runs if it's not in Vagrant
you can 'detect' running on vagrant by looking for the presence of the 
vagrant user:

sudo "vagrant" do
  user "vagrant"
  only_if { Etc.getpwent("vagrant") }
end

this kind of arbitrary-probe-state-and-then-take-action pattern is one 
of the reasons why
pushing ruby code down to the server under management is really powerful.