[chef] Re: Does Chef have support for multi-boot install

[Joshua Timberman < >]

You are correct in that Chef doesn't have a "resume after reboot" option. However, Chef is both idempotent and convergent. Rerunning chef after reboot will result in NOT configuring the system resources that are in the state declared by the recipes. For example, if your recipes manage a config file and install a package, those won't change when chef reruns. However if the reboot made a change to a file chef manages then it will be updated by chef after the reboot.

Make sense?

Cheers,

Joshua

On Sunday, August 9, 2015, Jubal Kohlmeier < "> > wrote:

Hello,

I am new to chef, and have gone the effort to port a few cookbook recipes to the AIX operating system. In one of my recipes, i update kernel parameters. However, on AIX, the parameters
require a reboot of the OS for them to come into effect. Does CHEF have multi-boot support? I suspect not. Ive found recipe's for shutting down the os, but nothing for support the
chef kitchen for 'waiting for the os to come back up' and continue installation.

Do i have it correctly?

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