[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Chef Node dummy data

[Sean OMeara < >]

I believe this may be an example ChefSpec droid you're looking for.

https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/mysql/blob/e13c394c0e7cce1ff720632f9ed098f6766403de/spec/mysql_service/rhel/amazon_201409_service_55_multi_spec.rb

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Ranjib Dey 
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> i have added a comment with raw chef api, useful if you dont want to use
> chef-api etc.
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> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Nenad Petronijevic 
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>> Awesome sauce.
>> It seems just like the thing I need.
>>
>> Thanks a bunch,
>> Nenad
>>
>> On Jul 3, 2015 10:35 PM, "Jeremy Bingham" 
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>>  wrote:
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>>> I have this for creating a bunch of nodes:
>>> https://gist.github.com/ctdk/16623c2453640448b6d6
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>>> The only caveats are: you need to install fauxhai and chef-api, but you
>>> need to install version 0.3.0 of chef-api. For whatever reason it chokes 
>>> on
>>> the most recent version. Otherwise, though, this'll generate as many fake
>>> nodes as you want. Change the number of nodes to create on line 31, and of
>>> course configure the right key and hostname in the config section on line 
>>> 8.
>>>
>>> -j
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Nenad Petronijevic 
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>>> wrote:
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>>>> Guess one of us will have to open source our solution :)
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 3, 2015 7:10 PM, "Ranjib Dey" 
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>>>>  wrote:
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>>>>> i dont think theres anything out there. we use the same technique as
>>>>> you mentioned (fauxhai) ..
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Nenad Petronijevic 
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>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> Well, I need to generate valid nodes,
>>>>>> with ohai attributes included.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought about generating nodes
>>>>>> with ohai attrs filled from fauxhai,
>>>>>> but I still need to update fauxhai data to be unique across all nodes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jul 3, 2015 6:30 PM, "Yoshi Spendiff"
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>>>>>>  wrote:
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>>>>>>> Or are you only interested in the ohai generated attributes?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Yoshi Spendiff
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>>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Have a look at test kitchen, it's essentially the standard test
>>>>>>>> suite for Chef at the moment.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In the suites section of the .kitchen.yml you can specify nodes and
>>>>>>>> each node can have individual node level attributes set.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://kitchen.ci/
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen
>>>>>>>> https://docs.chef.io/config_yml_kitchen.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Nenad Petronijevic
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>>>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi all.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I need to generate large number of dummy Chef nodes for testing
>>>>>>>>> purposes, together with automatic attributes.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is there any existing way to do that, maybe some testing script in
>>>>>>>>> chef repo?
>>>>>>>>> I've looked in chef-server repo but haven't found anything useful.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I can create nodes manually and add ohai attributes from fauxhai,
>>>>>>>>> but it would be great if there is an existing way to do that.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> Nenad
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Yoshi Spendiff
>>>>>>>> Ops Engineer
>>>>>>>> Indochino
>>>>>>>> Mobile: +1 778 952 2025
>>>>>>>> Email: 
>>>>>>>> 
 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Yoshi Spendiff
>>>>>>> Ops Engineer
>>>>>>> Indochino
>>>>>>> Mobile: +1 778 952 2025
>>>>>>> Email: 
>>>>>>> 
 
>>>>>
>>>>>
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