[chef] Re:

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Indra k < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

  How to prompt in chef attributes  ?

  I need to ask from a user whether they need to keep the default value which i described in attribute file or they need to override with their new value and get and process in that value itself.

  I  used get.chomp in ruby_block

Kevin is correct that the chef client is not meant to take user input to its recipes from the command line. You could pass attributes in JSON format in a file with "chef-client -J ./my_attributes_file.json" but this isn't a normal pattern.

Normally you would want to write your recipe so it can determine the correct attribute on its own. Using search in a recipe to find another node and get it's IP address is common.

http://docs.getchef.com/essentials_search.html#nodes

Bryan