I think per the Vagrant documentation you are going to want
chef.environment = 'whatever'
http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/chef_solo.html
You'll also need to provide an environment path that contains a JSON
file representing the environment.
- Julian
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Fabien Delpierre
< "> > wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I'm trying to make my Vagrant VM assume that node.chef_environment =
> something, even though that "something" is not an environment that actually
> exists (i.e. I don't have an environments/something.rb).
>
> So in my Vagrantfile, I have the following:
> config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
> chef.json = {
> chef_environment: 'foo_vagrant'
> }
> chef.run_list = [
> 'recipe[foo::default]'
> ]
> end
>
> I did it that way because I don't know any better, and in the past I've
> written cookbooks with case statements reading the node.chef_environment
> attribute and setting other attributes one way or another depending on what
> the environment is. However, I did have actual environment files then. So
> perhaps my attempt at cleverness failed.
>
> Anyway, I also have the following bit of recipe code:
> cookbook_file '/etc/init.d/celery_worker' do
> source "#{node.chef_environment}_celery_worker"
> mode '0755'
> action :nothing
> end.run_action(:create)
>
> Sadly, when my recipe runs, I get the following:
> ==> default: Error executing action `create` on resource
> 'cookbook_file[/etc/init.d/celery_worker]'
> ==> default:
> ================================================================================
> ==> default:
> ==> default: Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound
> ==> default: ------------------------------
> ==> default: Cookbook 'foo' (0.9.2) does not contain a file at any of these
> locations:
> ==> default: files/centos-6.6/_default_celery_worker
> ==> default: files/centos/_default_celery_worker
> ==> default: files/default/_default_celery_worker
> ==> default: files/_default_celery_worker
>
> So I totally get that the _default environment was applied to my node
> instead of what I had hoped to force through the Vagrantfile. And so my
> question is... what, if anything, can I do about this, short of actually
> having an environment file? If it makes a difference, I don't have a
> requirement to use Chef-Solo, I could switch to Chef-Zero, I just chose
> Chef-Solo for this project because I've never looked at Chef-Zero yet.
>
> Thanks!
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