[chef] Re: Problems with search Funktion in same recipe during first run

[Jorge Espada < >]

I think what you probably need to do is reload  node attributes (after the node.set), cause those wont be available  before node.save happens (at the end of the chef run), check the doc, but something like:

node.from_file( run_context.resolve_attribute('cookbook-name', 'default') )

should work

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Jorge Espada

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Christian Fröstl < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

I have a partial search in my tomcat recipe. I use it for finding out the

MySQL Server Backend for the tomcat application server.

At the beginning of my tomcat recipe I get the information for the Mysql

Server:

mysql_master_node = partial_search(:node, "roles:mysql_payment_server AND chef_environment:#{node.chef_environment}",

    :keys => { 'name' => ['name'],

               'ip' => ['ipaddress‘],

               'kernel_version' => ['kernel','version']

                                           }

        )

if mysql_master_node.length == 1

          mysql_master_node.each do |result|

            if result['name'] == node['machinename']

              node.set['tc']['payserver']['database_master'] = 'localhost'

            else

              node.set['tc']['payserver']['database_master'] =

mysql_master_node[0]['ip']

            end

          End

During the rest of the recipe, I will use the node variable

node['tc']['payserver'][‚database_master‘] to define the mysql backend

server in the server.xml of the tomcat.

template node['tc']['server_conf_file'] do

  source 'server.xml.erb'

  mode '0644'

  owner 'tomcatusr1'

  group 'tomcatusr1'

  variables({

                :mysql_master    =>

node['tc']['payserver']['database_master'],

            })

  notifies :restart, "service[#{node['tc']['service_name']}]"

End

It seems that the variable will set during the first run, and can only

used in the second chef-client run.

In the first run, the server.xml don’t have the content of

node['tc']['payserver'][‚database_master‘] in it. After the second run,

the file is correct.

Do you have any idea to solve this or is there a better way getting

backend server information?

Thanks in advance,

Christian