[chef] RE: Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

[Stephen Corbesero < >]

Being able to set chef_repo_path does look like the cleanest way.  And it 
makes sense to know the top of the tree.

How do I set it in my knife config.

I just tried both of the following
  
   chef_repo_path "#{current_dir}/.."
   knife[:chef_repo_path] = "#{current_dir}/.."

where current_dir is expected to be the directory of my knife.rb, which is in 
.chef under the chef-repo.


   
--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer


-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:48 PM
To: 

 
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and 
data bags in my knife.rb?

cookbook_path is indeed an array of strings or a string. when
chef_repo_path is set, it is inferred to be
`chef_repo_path/cookbooks`. otherwise it defaults to
[chef_repo_path/cookbooks, chef_repo_path/site-cookbooks]

$ knife upload environments/dev.json

'environment from file' takes a path to a file to upload. I used to
use it with shell loops:

$ for i in environments/*.json ; do knife environment from file $i ; done

I think chef_repo_path is what you are after. With that set correctly,
environments inferred default will be correct, e.g.
CHEF_REPO_PATH/environments.
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L186

hope this helps~

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Stephen Corbesero
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 >
 wrote:
> Thanks for the link..  I am looking at it now.
>
> According to my understanding of that code, it looks like it should be 
> trying to set the default "top" to be the directory above the cookbooks 
> path.  I have two issues with that.
>
> 1. The cookbook path is usually an array, not a simple string.  I even made 
> my cookbook path just a string, and it still failed.
>
> 2. When I try to depend on a path for the other objects, I get an error 
> message like the following:
>
>          % knife environment from file dev.json
>          ERROR: Could not find or open file 'dev.json' in current directory 
> or in 'environments/dev.json'
>
> Which is implying that path it is using for the lookup is just 
> "environments/" and not anything that I have set, or anything that knows 
> about the top of the chef-repo
>
>
>
> --
> Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AJ Christensen 
> [mailto:
 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:23 PM
> To: 
> 
 
> Subject: [chef] Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data 
> bags in my knife.rb?
>
> https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L111-L128
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Stephen Corbesero 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
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>> The knife.rb lets you specify a cookbook_path.
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>> I want to get the same effect for roles, environments, and data bags.
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>> I have the following in my knife.rb file
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>> current_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
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>> cookbook_path  ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]
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>> # the following don't seem to work.  :(
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>> role_path           ["#{current_dir}/../roles"]
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>> environment_path   ["#{current_dir}/../environments"]
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>> data_bag_path       ["#{current_dir}/../data_bags"]
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>> I remember seeing how to do this somewhere along time ago, but I can’t
>> find the original reference.  I have been looking, and I see several
>> references that strongly imply these should work, or something similar
>> like making the object name plural (roles_path)
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>> I have tried several permutations, including  statements like
>> knife[:role_path] = …, but nothing seems to work.
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>> Is it possible  What is the correct format?
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>>
>> Thanks in advance.
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer
>>
>> Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World
>>
>> 
 
>>  | www.synchronoss.com
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