Currently we don’t get a node save if we run in WhyRun mode. I was
wondering if there was a way to force a “node save” in this mode?
Thanks.
Bhavna
WhyRun is supposed to be a dry run that doesn't affect your server. Why do
you want to node.save in this mode?
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Bhavna Agrawal bhavna@us.ibm.com wrote:
Currently we don't get a node save if we run in WhyRun mode. I was
wondering if there was a way to force a "node save" in this mode?
Thanks.
Bhavna
theres nothing stopping you from invoking a node.save. Add a handler that
hooks at run_finished and then inside it check if its why run mode and
invoke node.save.
but as brian said, this is a very very bad idea,
whole point of why run is to not change anything ...just to estimate what
will be updated
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Bhavna Agrawal bhavna@us.ibm.com wrote:
Currently we don't get a node save if we run in WhyRun mode. I was
wondering if there was a way to force a "node save" in this mode?
Thanks.
Bhavna
On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Ranjib Dey wrote:
theres nothing stopping you from invoking a node.save. Add a handler that hooks at run_finished and then inside it check if its why run mode and invoke node.save.
but as brian said, this is a very very bad idea,
whole point of why run is to not change anything ...just to estimate what will be updated
Node#save itself will try to stop you: https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/a59b1992cabd063bdcf1494a1a3d0edf48ffa0d5/lib/chef/node.rb#L546-L560
Though you could do a begin/ensure around temporarily unsetting why_run.
Anyway, we can probably give you better options if you tell us what problem you are trying to solve.
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Daniel DeLeo