[chef] Chef-Metal/Provisioning input from multiple json files?

[Douglas Garstang < >]

I was trying to use chef-metal (now called chef provisioning I guess) to deploy and destroy instances from a single rb file for multiple environments. I can pass in the environmental data with a json file, but the action, ie whether to start or stop the instance doesn't belong in the environment json file and it seems that I can't pass two json files with -j  to the chef-client.

Eg, my recipe looks like this. There's a case statement that starts or stops the instance based on the value of node['action']. I need to work out how to get the node['action'] input into the file from somewhere... where?

#require 'chef_provisioning_fog'
require 'chef/provisioning/fog_driver'
require 'chef/config'

with_chef_server "#{node['chef_server_url']}", {
  :client_name          => Chef::Config[:node_name],
  :signing_key_filename => Chef::Config[:client_key]
}

case node['action']
    when 'create'
        machine_batch do
            machine "test01.#{node['env']}.slicetest.com" do
                chef_environment "#{node['env']}"
                role 'role-default'
                converge true
                machine_options :bootstrap_options => {
                    :flavor_id                 => 'm1.large',
                    :key_name                  => 'test-ec2-default-v2',
                    :groups                    => ['slice-default'],
                    :image_id                  => 'ami-226fd44a',
                    :tags                      => {"env" => "#{node['env']}", 'role' => 'default' },
                    :iam_instance_profile_name => 'instance-config',
                    :availability_zone         => "us-east-1a",
                    :block_device_mapping => [
                        { 'DeviceName' => '/dev/sdb', 'VirtualName' => 'ephemeral0' },
                        { 'DeviceName' => '/dev/sdc', 'VirtualName' => 'ephemeral1' }
                    ]
                },
                :ssh_username                  => 'ec2-user',
                :use_private_ip_for_ssh        => true
            end
        end
    when 'destroy'
        machine "test01.#{node['env']}.slicetest.com" do
            action :destroy
        end
    else
        raise "Error"
end

Doug