[chef] Re: Re: Generate list of updated resources

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Lamont Granquist wrote:
>  
> The premium reporting and auditing features do exactly this. If you  
> look at lib/chef/resource_reporter.rb you can see where our client code  
> is. What we do is slightly complicated and at the start of the run we  
> hit the server to get a run id (and see if reporting is enabled on the  
> server), then at the end we construct a POST with all the information we  
> need as JSON. You can probably take a similar approach with a  
> chef_handler that plagiarizes what we do to assemble the data in the  
> resource_reporter.rb and then dumps the information where ever you like.


I’ve never used it but the foreman project is sort of a generic config 
management reporting system. It has a Chef plugin based on the resource 
reporter that Lamont referenced.

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Daniel DeLeo