[chef] Re: Re: Re: Supervisor missing templates

[Ben Bytheway < >]

Yes, the chef run fails with an error that the template cannot be found, even 
when specifying the cookbook where the template is located in the resource 
call.  

> On Jul 21, 2014, at 8:09 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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>  wrote:
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>> On Monday, July 21, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Ben Bytheway wrote:
>> I have also seen this behavior, but haven't gotten to the bottom of it. If 
>> I knife download my cookbook, the template is there, but chef-client 
>> doesn't get it. Isn't in /var/chef/cache at all.
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> 
> Templates are downloaded on demand, as they are used by resources. If you 
> never use them, then chef doesn’t download them. If I remember correctly, 
> there might also be a small bug where templates that are used can be 
> removed at the end of a chef-client run (but they’re downloaded the next 
> time so it’s just wasting a bit of IO). Have you seen a cookbook fail to 
> execute for this reason?  
> 
> Also, if you just don’t like this behavior, you can configure `no_lazy_load 
> true` to make chef-client fetch all templates (and cookbook files, which 
> have the same behavior) eagerly.
> 
> FWIW, eager load will be the default in Chef 12 since the URLs to fetch the 
> files are time-limited and on long chef-client runs (an hour or more), the 
> URLs expire and cause errors.
> 
> --  
> Daniel DeLeo
>