[chef] Re: Re: Delaying evaluation in chef provisioning script to pass dynamically assigned IDs

[Christine Draper < >]

Daniel,

Thanks, I tried again for the machine resource I think this works:

machine 'appserver' do
 run_list ['automateinsights::deploy_from_package']
 attribute ['automateinsights', 'envconfig', 'db_location'], lazy { search(:node, "name:db").first['ipaddress'] }
end

However, I really can't figure out a way to do anything to delay the with_machine_options. I guess its not the same resource/attribute pattern.  I keep getting:

[2015-01-30T12:07:47-06:00] ERROR: No resource or method named `lazy' for `Chef::Recipe "/home/christine/test/provision/provision_network_aws.rb"'

Here's some of the things I've tried.

with_machine_options :bootstrap_options => {
  :key_name => 'test1_aws',
  :instance_type => 't1.micro',
  :subnet => lazy { data_bag_item("aws_subnet", "provisioning-vpc-subnet-a")["subnet_id"] },
  :associate_public_ip_address => true
}

and:

with_machine_options :bootstrap_options => lazy { {
  :key_name => 'test1_aws',
  :instance_type => 't1.micro',
  :subnet => data_bag_item("aws_subnet", "provisioning-vpc-subnet-a")["subnet_id"],
  :associate_public_ip_address => true
}}

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Daniel DeLeo < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Christine Draper wrote:

> Apologies for more than one question in one day but I am really stuck on this one.
>
> I am working on a chef provisioning script that sets up a subnet and then creates a machine in it.
>
> I want to do something like this to tell chef to provision the machine in the subnet it has just created. I need to delay querying the data bag until converge time, but I can't figure out how to do it.
>
> with_machine_options :bootstrap_options => {
> :key_name => 'xxxx',
> :instance_type => 't1.micro',
> :subnet => data_bag_item("aws_subnet", "subnet-a")["subnet_id"],
> :associate_public_ip_address => true
> }
>
> I have a similar problem later when I need to pass an IP address from one machine to another, and I need the 'attribute' to be evaluated at converge time:
>
> machine 'db' do
> run_list ['apt','automateinsights::db']
> end
>
> machine 'appserver' do
> run_list ['automateinsights::deploy_from_package']
> attribute ['automateinsights', 'envconfig', 'db_location'], need db ipaddress here
> end
>
> Regards,
> Christine

I’m not familiar enough with chef-provisioning to tell you how to get the db IP address from EC2 (you could use search if you’re using a Chef Server). For lazy evaluation of resource attributes, though, you can use the lazy evaluation feature: http://docs.chef.io/resource_common.html#lazy-attribute-evaluation

HTH,

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Daniel DeLeo