[chef] Writing a file from within a recipe to the Chef server

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Hello Everybody!

  I’m writing a recipe (for Windows nodes) that I want to help populate a properties.yml file so I can use it with some serverspec tests that I want to run once the Chef run has completed.

I can get hold of the attributes required and dump them into a file, but it’s saving this file on the nodes in question, whereas I need it on the Chef Server itself.

Is this even possible to do?  Minitest handler is out of the question as there is no support for Windows, any suggestions?

 

Currently I am using:

“ruby_block "nodes for serverspec" do

  block do

    if ::File.exist?('properties.yml') then

    ::File.delete('properties.yml')

  end

  cnnodes.each do |n|

mess = <<EOH

#{n}:

  :roles:

    - console    

EOH

    ::File.open('properties.yml', "a") { |f| f.write(mess)}   

  end

end

end”

Where cnnodes is an array of the node names for a particular server role.

 

Thanks

Chris