[chef] Re: Chef-apply and node attribute

[AJ Christensen < >]

I think chef apply is meant to work on a single recipe file. You may be able to specify -j for --json-attribs like chef-solo/client, but I am not sure. It looks like you could make use of chef client in zero mode, or solo, to get the Cookbook-style behavior with attributes you are looking for.

cheers,

--aj

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Jeremy Mauro < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi everyone,

 

 

Does anyone knows how to use attribute with the use of chef-apply ?

I have the following structure:

generator/metadata.rb

generator/attributes/default.rb

generator/templates/default/test.erb

generator/recipes/default.rb

 

cat generator/attributes/default.rb

default[‘generator’][’test’] = ’test’

cat generator/recipe/default.rb

puts node[‘generator’][’test’]

 

Of course by running in another directory:

/tmp/generator $ chef-apply recipes/default.rb  -l debug

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] DEBUG: Building node object for XXXXXXXX

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] DEBUG: Extracting run list from JSON attributes provided on command line

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] DEBUG: Applying attributes from json file

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] DEBUG: Platform is debian version 8.0

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] INFO: Run List is []

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] INFO: Run List expands to []

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] INFO: Unable to access cache at /var/chef. Switching cache to /home/jmauro/.chef

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] INFO: Unable to access cache at /var/chef. Switching cache to /home/jmauro/.chef

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /home/jmauro/.chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] DEBUG: NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

recipes/default.rb:20:in `run_chef_recipe'

/home/jmauro/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/chef-11.18.0/lib/chef/application/apply.rb:141:in `instance_eval'

/home/jmauro/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/chef-11.18.0/lib/chef/application/apply.rb:141:in `run_chef_recipe'

/home/jmauro/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/chef-11.18.0/lib/chef/application/apply.rb:153:in `run_application'

/home/jmauro/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/chef-11.18.0/lib/chef/application/apply.rb:166:in `run'

/home/jmauro/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/gems/chef-11.18.0/bin/chef-apply:25:in `<top (required)>'

/home/jmauro/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/chef-apply:23:in `load'

/home/jmauro/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/chef-apply:23:in `<main>'

[2015-02-04T01:10:47+01:00] FATAL: NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

 

Is there a way to use attribute or this is simply an anti-pattern?