[chef] RE: Re: Chef newbie: Web.config manipulations

[Andrew Hodgson < >]

Tensibai wrote:

>Le 2015-09-22 17:27, Andrew Hodgson a écrit :
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Just wondering if there is any tutorial out there that goes through 
>>modifying Windows .net .config files using Chef whereby the config file is 
>>tokenised in the following way:
>>
>>  <connectionStrings>
>>    <add name="MyConnectionString" connectionString="Data 
>> Source=__AppDBServer__;Initial Catalog=__AppDatabase__;User 
>> ID=__AppDBUserID__;Password=__AppDBPassword__" 
>> providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
>>  </connectionStrings>
>>
>>I want a range of tokens which are unique across the different environments 
>>and can be used across apps, and the system will replace the relevant 
>>values with the actual values.  I have used DSC XTokenize module to do 
>>similar in the past, but I >>want to see if I can do it in Chef, possibly 
>>using data bags to store the information.

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> If they are standard text files, templates[1] are the way to go, I would 
> set the attributes in a chef-vault[2] (to keep the password encrypted on 
> the chef-server side) and named the databag item per the environment.

I did look into templates quite a bit, but wanted a more simple token 
replacement strategy rather than relying on a more complex Erubis structure.  
I went back to using DSC tokenization in the end using the xTokenize module.

Thanks for confirming I was looking in the right direction though.

Best.
Andrew.