[chef] Jenkins and Chef

["Fouts, Chris" < >]

I’m trying to setup my existing RHEL Jenkins build slaves to orchestrate deploying and installing our product on multiple servers. I have a set of Jenkins jobs that deploy ProdA, and then a different, but similar, set of Jenkins jobs deploy ProdB. Both Jenkins job sets “can” be running on the “same” build slave. However, ProdA may require a different set of cookbooks that ProdB. Therefore, my solution is to checkout the corresponding set of cookbooks for ProdA and ProdB, and since each job set runs on a different Jenkins $WORKSPACE directory, my cookbooks directory locations do not clash. I can then have the Jenkins jobs upload their cookbooks to the server – so far so good.

 

However, how do I orchestrate my knife.rb file to point to the corresponding cookbook_path? Remember I’m doing two Jenkins job sets on the “same” build slave, meaning I’ll have one .chef/knife.rb file at any one time. I’m aware of the knife block plugin

 

Make sense?

 

Chris