[chef] Re: Re: Jenkins and Chef

[George Miranda < >]

Using berkshelf might greatly relieve your pain.  Back in the day before berks, I would accomplish this with a parameterized knife.rb.  You can use $WORKSPACE in your knife.rb.  Here's a snippet from an older project's knife.rb file, where I expected different cookbook paths based upon different things going in different workspaces.

if File.exists?(File.join(ENV['WORKSPACE'], "chef-repo"))

  cookbook_path          ["#{ENV['WORKSPACE']}/chef-repo/cookbooks"]

elsif File.exists?(File.join(ENV['WORKSPACE'], "cookbooks"))

  cookbook_path          ["#{ENV['WORKSPACE']}/cookbooks"]

else

  cookbook_path          ["#{ENV['WORKSPACE']}"]

end

So you can do things like that.  But nowadays, I'd also recommend just looking at berks.

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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Dave Kichler < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Are you using any sort of cookbook dependency management tool?  (Berkshelf, librarian, etc)  If not, it sounds like adopting one of those tools and installing/using it on Jenkins would greatly simplify your workflow.

Dave

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Fouts, Chris < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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