[chef] Re: Double converge, blocking on search, event-driven chef-client?

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 10/1/14, 12:48 PM, Justin Dossey wrote:
> would cause the recipe to poll the Chef server every ten seconds until 
> a response came back, or until the client token expired (usually 
> around 15 minutes).
>
> Such behavior is not ideal (particularly because of the client token 
> expiry issue) but besides supporting a second converge, it's the only 
> way I have seen that will accomplish the desired result.
You can set `no_lazy_load true` in client.rb to avoid cookbook_file 
resources failing after 15m.  This will be the default in Chef 12 
client.  The Chef 12 server also uses solr 4 and is going to populate 
search results in seconds rather than minutes.