[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Reporting: list of nodes with cookbook versions

[Ranjib Dey < >]

i dont think chef server should do that, but thats mostly because i dont need it. To me chef-server as an artifact store. And metadata service , a decent service discovery mechanism if you can withstand couple of minutes delay (and in most cases I can).

Things like resource reporting, audits, push jobs etc are already provided as add on (they are proprietary features though). If theres enough people who needs it, we can get it done via the RFC process, like any other new features

cheers

ranjib

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Roman Naumenko < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

To Tensibai point: isn't it what chef server supposed to do?

Ranjib, that's probably the way to do it, but again - why that's missing in core functionality? Also, it's version reports are useful only in relation to other information: health status, last run time etc. Is all this information goes to tags as well?

--Roman

Ranjib Dey wrote on 04-02-15 3:29:

that example can be extend to save the cookbook version info as a node attribute. and a custom knife plugin can show you the data any way you want.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Tensibai < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I know no direct access from chef server to this, the way we do use is a report handler to populate a DB and then have an interface giving run details with cookbook versions.

There's an exemple ont he doc here: http://docs.chef.io/handlers.html#cookbook-versions

I did adapt an old dashboard named Cuisine (but we don't use it anymore), it's unclean code and I've not done a correct installation cookbook.  I may update it on github if you wish to have a look at it and at it's corresponding handler.

 

Le 2015-02-03 17:03, Roman Naumenko a écrit :

Hi,

Does chef server has capabilities to generate report of environment status? Was surprised to see it's not so easy to generate.

I'm looking to get things like list of nodes with the particular cookbook versions, for example:

cookbook     version     node        status

cb1                1.2.4          linux1      clean

cb1                1.2.4          linux5      failed

cb_base       1.0.1          linux2      failed

cb_base       1.0.1          linux4     clean

cb_base       1.0.2          linux5     clean

cb_base       1.0.2          linux6     clean

and so on

It has to be generated in shell since the web-interface is pretty much useless.

I looked at few plugins like lastrun, knife-audit but none is working with versions.

Thanks,

--Roman