[chef] Re: Writing a cross-platform template definition

[Simon Detheridge < >]

Thanks!

It's actually a simple cookbook that puts a bunch of files somewhere, and 
writes out a config file telling an already-installed service (in a conf.d) 
where they are, so it felt like it should be easy enough to accomplish. I can 
see that this is something of an edge case and simple to workaround so 
devoting significant time to fixing it would be counterproductive. -- I just 
wondered if there were a Proper Way to do this.

The slideshare link was very informative. Cheers.

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Simon!
> 
> Cross-platform patterns are Hard, and usually devolve into spaghetti.
> 
> I always preach maximizing for grokability, as your code will often be
> read by other people for the first time in operations scenarios.
> 
> Usually, its more than just the individual resource that differ from
> platform to platform, but the pattern as a whole.
> 
> If your cookbook is a language runtime, using include_recipe,
> switching on platform may be appropriate.
> 
> If your cookbook is setting up a service, I'd suggest making a
> resource for it, and encapsulating the code into different providers.
> 
> http://www.slideshare.net/someara/cookbook-reusability-chef-community-summit-2014
> 
> github.com/opscode-cookbooks/mysql
> github.com/opscode-cookbooks/httpd
> 
> -s
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Simon Detheridge 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to write a recipe that works on Linux and Windows.
> >
> > If I write:
> >   user "root"
> > in a template, Windows throws an error declaring "No mapping between
> > account names and security IDs was done."
> >
> > The docs suggest that I should be using 'rights' instead of 'user', but
> > this means I'd have to write all of my templates or recipes twice. Is
> > there a workaround? (Can I map 'root' to 'Administrator'?)
> >
> > I can set a 'root_user' attribute on my nodes, but this makes the cookbook
> > non-usable outside of my environment. Is there an accepted way to
> > accomplish this?
> >
> > --
> > Simon Detheridge - CTO, Widgit Software
> > 26 Queen Street, Cubbington, CV32 7NA - Tel: +44 (0)1926 333680
> 

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Simon Detheridge - CTO, Widgit Software
26 Queen Street, Cubbington, CV32 7NA - Tel: +44 (0)1926 333680