How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

Stephen_Corbesero · January 7, 2015, 8:13pm

The knife.rb lets you specify a cookbook_path.

I want to get the same effect for roles, environments, and data bags.

I have the following in my knife.rb file

current_dir = File.dirname(FILE)
cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/…/cookbooks"]

the following don’t seem to work.

role_path ["#{current_dir}/…/roles"]
environment_path ["#{current_dir}/…/environments"]
data_bag_path ["#{current_dir}/…/data_bags"]

I remember seeing how to do this somewhere along time ago, but I can’t find the original reference. I have been looking, and I see several references that strongly imply these should work, or something similar like making the object name plural (roles_path)

I have tried several permutations, including statements like knife[:role_path] = …, but nothing seems to work.

Is it possible What is the correct format?

Thanks in advance.

–
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer
Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World
stephen.corbesero@synchronoss.com mailto:stephen.corbesero@synchronoss.com | www.synchronoss.com http://www.synchronoss.com

AJ_Christensen2 · January 7, 2015, 8:22pm

github.com

chef/chef/blob/main/lib/chef/config.rb#L111-L128


      
          #
          # Author:: Adam Jacob (<adam@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Christopher Brown (<cb@chef.io>)
          # Author:: AJ Christensen (<aj@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Mark Mzyk (<mmzyk@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Kyle Goodwin (<kgoodwin@primerevenue.com>)
          # Copyright:: Copyright (c) Chef Software Inc.
          # License:: Apache License, Version 2.0
          #
          # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
          # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
          # You may obtain a copy of the License at
          #
          #     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
          #
          # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
          # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
          # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
          # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
          # limitations under the License.

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On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Stephen Corbesero
Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

The knife.rb lets you specify a cookbook_path.

I want to get the same effect for roles, environments, and data bags.

I have the following in my knife.rb file

current_dir = File.dirname(FILE)

cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]

the following don't seem to work.

role_path ["#{current_dir}/../roles"]

environment_path ["#{current_dir}/../environments"]

data_bag_path ["#{current_dir}/../data_bags"]

I remember seeing how to do this somewhere along time ago, but I can’t find
the original reference. I have been looking, and I see several references
that strongly imply these should work, or something similar like making the
object name plural (roles_path)

I have tried several permutations, including statements like
knife[:role_path] = …, but nothing seems to work.

Is it possible What is the correct format?

Thanks in advance.

--

Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World

stephen.corbesero@synchronoss.com | www.synchronoss.com

Stephen_Corbesero · January 7, 2015, 8:39pm

Thanks for the link.. I am looking at it now.

According to my understanding of that code, it looks like it should be trying to set the default "top" to be the directory above the cookbooks path. I have two issues with that.

The cookbook path is usually an array, not a simple string. I even made my cookbook path just a string, and it still failed.

When I try to depend on a path for the other objects, I get an error message like the following:

  % knife environment from file dev.json 
  ERROR: Could not find or open file 'dev.json' in current directory or in 'environments/dev.json'

Which is implying that path it is using for the lookup is just "environments/" and not anything that I have set, or anything that knows about the top of the chef-repo

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:23 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

github.com

chef/chef/blob/main/lib/chef/config.rb#L111-L128


      
          #
          # Author:: Adam Jacob (<adam@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Christopher Brown (<cb@chef.io>)
          # Author:: AJ Christensen (<aj@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Mark Mzyk (<mmzyk@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Kyle Goodwin (<kgoodwin@primerevenue.com>)
          # Copyright:: Copyright (c) Chef Software Inc.
          # License:: Apache License, Version 2.0
          #
          # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
          # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
          # You may obtain a copy of the License at
          #
          #     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
          #
          # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
          # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
          # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
          # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
          # limitations under the License.

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On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

The knife.rb lets you specify a cookbook_path.

I want to get the same effect for roles, environments, and data bags.

I have the following in my knife.rb file

current_dir = File.dirname(FILE)

cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]

the following don't seem to work.

role_path ["#{current_dir}/../roles"]

environment_path ["#{current_dir}/../environments"]

data_bag_path ["#{current_dir}/../data_bags"]

I remember seeing how to do this somewhere along time ago, but I can’t
find the original reference. I have been looking, and I see several
references that strongly imply these should work, or something similar
like making the object name plural (roles_path)

I have tried several permutations, including statements like
knife[:role_path] = …, but nothing seems to work.

Is it possible What is the correct format?

Thanks in advance.

--

Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World

stephen.corbesero@synchronoss.com | www.synchronoss.com

AJ_Christensen2 · January 7, 2015, 8:47pm

cookbook_path is indeed an array of strings or a string. when
chef_repo_path is set, it is inferred to be
chef_repo_path/cookbooks. otherwise it defaults to
[chef_repo_path/cookbooks, chef_repo_path/site-cookbooks]

$ knife upload environments/dev.json

'environment from file' takes a path to a file to upload. I used to
use it with shell loops:

$ for i in environments/*.json ; do knife environment from file $i ; done

I think chef_repo_path is what you are after. With that set correctly,
environments inferred default will be correct, e.g.
CHEF_REPO_PATH/environments.

github.com

chef/chef/blob/main/lib/chef/config.rb#L186


      
          #
          # Author:: Adam Jacob (<adam@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Christopher Brown (<cb@chef.io>)
          # Author:: AJ Christensen (<aj@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Mark Mzyk (<mmzyk@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Kyle Goodwin (<kgoodwin@primerevenue.com>)
          # Copyright:: Copyright (c) Chef Software Inc.
          # License:: Apache License, Version 2.0
          #
          # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
          # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
          # You may obtain a copy of the License at
          #
          #     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
          #
          # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
          # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
          # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
          # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
          # limitations under the License.
          
          require_relative "log"
          require "chef-config/logger"
          
          # DI our logger into ChefConfig before we load the config. Some defaults are
          # auto-detected, and this emits log messages on some systems, all of which will
          # occur at require-time. So we need to set the logger first.
          ChefConfig.logger = Chef::Log
          
          require "chef-config/config"
          require "chef-utils" unless defined?(ChefUtils::CANARY)
          require_relative "platform/query_helpers"
          
          # Ohai::Config defines its own log_level and log_location. When loaded, it will
          # override the default ChefConfig::Config values. We save them here before
          # loading ohai/config so that we can override them again inside Chef::Config.
          #
          # REMOVEME once these configurables are removed from the top level of Ohai.
          LOG_LEVEL = ChefConfig::Config[:log_level] unless defined? LOG_LEVEL
          LOG_LOCATION = ChefConfig::Config[:log_location] unless defined? LOG_LOCATION
          
          # Load the ohai config into the chef config. We can't have an empty ohai
          # configuration context because `ohai.plugins_path << some_path` won't work,
          # and providing default ohai config values here isn't DRY.
          require "ohai/config"
          
          class Chef
            Config = ChefConfig::Config
          
            # We re-open ChefConfig::Config to add additional settings. Generally,
            # everything should go in chef-config so it's shared with whoever uses that.
            # We make exceptions to that rule when:
            # * The functionality isn't likely to be useful outside of Chef
            # * The functionality makes use of a dependency we don't want to add to chef-config
            class Config
          
              default :event_loggers do
                evt_loggers = []
                if ChefUtils.windows?
                  evt_loggers << :win_evt
                end
                evt_loggers
              end
          
              # Override the default values that were set by Ohai.
              #
              # REMOVEME once these configurables are removed from the top level of Ohai.
              default :log_level, LOG_LEVEL
              default :log_location, LOG_LOCATION
          
              # Ohai::Config[:log_level] is deprecated and warns when set. Unfortunately,
              # there is no way to distinguish between setting log_level and setting
              # Ohai::Config[:log_level]. Since log_level and log_location are used by
              # chef-client and other tools (e.g., knife), we will mute the warnings here
              # by redefining the config_attr_writer to not warn for these options.
              #
              # REMOVEME once the warnings for these configurables are removed from Ohai.
              %i{log_level log_location}.each do |option|
                config_attr_writer option do |value|
                  value
                end
              end
          
            end
          end

hope this helps~

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Stephen Corbesero
Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

Thanks for the link.. I am looking at it now.

According to my understanding of that code, it looks like it should be trying to set the default "top" to be the directory above the cookbooks path. I have two issues with that.
The cookbook path is usually an array, not a simple string. I even made my cookbook path just a string, and it still failed.
When I try to depend on a path for the other objects, I get an error message like the following:
  % knife environment from file dev.json
  ERROR: Could not find or open file 'dev.json' in current directory or in 'environments/dev.json'
Which is implying that path it is using for the lookup is just "environments/" and not anything that I have set, or anything that knows about the top of the chef-repo

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:23 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L111-L128

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

The knife.rb lets you specify a cookbook_path.

I want to get the same effect for roles, environments, and data bags.

I have the following in my knife.rb file

current_dir = File.dirname(FILE)

cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]

the following don't seem to work.

role_path ["#{current_dir}/../roles"]

environment_path ["#{current_dir}/../environments"]

data_bag_path ["#{current_dir}/../data_bags"]

I remember seeing how to do this somewhere along time ago, but I can’t
find the original reference. I have been looking, and I see several
references that strongly imply these should work, or something similar
like making the object name plural (roles_path)

I have tried several permutations, including statements like
knife[:role_path] = …, but nothing seems to work.

Is it possible What is the correct format?

Thanks in advance.

--

Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World

stephen.corbesero@synchronoss.com | www.synchronoss.com

Stephen_Corbesero · January 7, 2015, 9:03pm

Being able to set chef_repo_path does look like the cleanest way. And it makes sense to know the top of the tree.

How do I set it in my knife config.

I just tried both of the following

chef_repo_path "#{current_dir}/.."
knife[:chef_repo_path] = "#{current_dir}/.."

where current_dir is expected to be the directory of my knife.rb, which is in .chef under the chef-repo.

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:48 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

cookbook_path is indeed an array of strings or a string. when
chef_repo_path is set, it is inferred to be
chef_repo_path/cookbooks. otherwise it defaults to
[chef_repo_path/cookbooks, chef_repo_path/site-cookbooks]

$ knife upload environments/dev.json

'environment from file' takes a path to a file to upload. I used to
use it with shell loops:

$ for i in environments/*.json ; do knife environment from file $i ; done

I think chef_repo_path is what you are after. With that set correctly,
environments inferred default will be correct, e.g.
CHEF_REPO_PATH/environments.

github.com

chef/chef/blob/main/lib/chef/config.rb#L186


      
          #
          # Author:: Adam Jacob (<adam@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Christopher Brown (<cb@chef.io>)
          # Author:: AJ Christensen (<aj@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Mark Mzyk (<mmzyk@chef.io>)
          # Author:: Kyle Goodwin (<kgoodwin@primerevenue.com>)
          # Copyright:: Copyright (c) Chef Software Inc.
          # License:: Apache License, Version 2.0
          #
          # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
          # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
          # You may obtain a copy of the License at
          #
          #     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
          #
          # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
          # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
          # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
          # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
          # limitations under the License.
          
          require_relative "log"
          require "chef-config/logger"
          
          # DI our logger into ChefConfig before we load the config. Some defaults are
          # auto-detected, and this emits log messages on some systems, all of which will
          # occur at require-time. So we need to set the logger first.
          ChefConfig.logger = Chef::Log
          
          require "chef-config/config"
          require "chef-utils" unless defined?(ChefUtils::CANARY)
          require_relative "platform/query_helpers"
          
          # Ohai::Config defines its own log_level and log_location. When loaded, it will
          # override the default ChefConfig::Config values. We save them here before
          # loading ohai/config so that we can override them again inside Chef::Config.
          #
          # REMOVEME once these configurables are removed from the top level of Ohai.
          LOG_LEVEL = ChefConfig::Config[:log_level] unless defined? LOG_LEVEL
          LOG_LOCATION = ChefConfig::Config[:log_location] unless defined? LOG_LOCATION
          
          # Load the ohai config into the chef config. We can't have an empty ohai
          # configuration context because `ohai.plugins_path << some_path` won't work,
          # and providing default ohai config values here isn't DRY.
          require "ohai/config"
          
          class Chef
            Config = ChefConfig::Config
          
            # We re-open ChefConfig::Config to add additional settings. Generally,
            # everything should go in chef-config so it's shared with whoever uses that.
            # We make exceptions to that rule when:
            # * The functionality isn't likely to be useful outside of Chef
            # * The functionality makes use of a dependency we don't want to add to chef-config
            class Config
          
              default :event_loggers do
                evt_loggers = []
                if ChefUtils.windows?
                  evt_loggers << :win_evt
                end
                evt_loggers
              end
          
              # Override the default values that were set by Ohai.
              #
              # REMOVEME once these configurables are removed from the top level of Ohai.
              default :log_level, LOG_LEVEL
              default :log_location, LOG_LOCATION
          
              # Ohai::Config[:log_level] is deprecated and warns when set. Unfortunately,
              # there is no way to distinguish between setting log_level and setting
              # Ohai::Config[:log_level]. Since log_level and log_location are used by
              # chef-client and other tools (e.g., knife), we will mute the warnings here
              # by redefining the config_attr_writer to not warn for these options.
              #
              # REMOVEME once the warnings for these configurables are removed from Ohai.
              %i{log_level log_location}.each do |option|
                config_attr_writer option do |value|
                  value
                end
              end
          
            end
          end

hope this helps~

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Stephen Corbesero
Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

Thanks for the link.. I am looking at it now.

According to my understanding of that code, it looks like it should be trying to set the default "top" to be the directory above the cookbooks path. I have two issues with that.
The cookbook path is usually an array, not a simple string. I even made my cookbook path just a string, and it still failed.
When I try to depend on a path for the other objects, I get an error message like the following:
  % knife environment from file dev.json
  ERROR: Could not find or open file 'dev.json' in current directory or in 'environments/dev.json'
Which is implying that path it is using for the lookup is just "environments/" and not anything that I have set, or anything that knows about the top of the chef-repo

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:23 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L111-L128

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

The knife.rb lets you specify a cookbook_path.

I want to get the same effect for roles, environments, and data bags.

I have the following in my knife.rb file

current_dir = File.dirname(FILE)

cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]

the following don't seem to work.

role_path ["#{current_dir}/../roles"]

environment_path ["#{current_dir}/../environments"]

data_bag_path ["#{current_dir}/../data_bags"]

I remember seeing how to do this somewhere along time ago, but I can’t
find the original reference. I have been looking, and I see several
references that strongly imply these should work, or something similar
like making the object name plural (roles_path)

I have tried several permutations, including statements like
knife[:role_path] = …, but nothing seems to work.

Is it possible What is the correct format?

Thanks in advance.

--

Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World

stephen.corbesero@synchronoss.com | www.synchronoss.com

AJ_Christensen2 · January 7, 2015, 9:08pm

Use Ruby's File#expand_path or similar to build the chef_repo_path by
expanding it. I doubt it understands the '..'.

You can use something like File.dirname(__FILE__) inside of knife.rb
to get the directory enclosing it, then join/expand from there.

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Corbesero
Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

Being able to set chef_repo_path does look like the cleanest way. And it makes sense to know the top of the tree.

How do I set it in my knife config.

I just tried both of the following

chef_repo_path "#{current_dir}/.."
knife[:chef_repo_path] = "#{current_dir}/.."

where current_dir is expected to be the directory of my knife.rb, which is in .chef under the chef-repo.

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:48 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

cookbook_path is indeed an array of strings or a string. when
chef_repo_path is set, it is inferred to be
chef_repo_path/cookbooks. otherwise it defaults to
[chef_repo_path/cookbooks, chef_repo_path/site-cookbooks]

$ knife upload environments/dev.json

'environment from file' takes a path to a file to upload. I used to
use it with shell loops:

$ for i in environments/*.json ; do knife environment from file $i ; done

I think chef_repo_path is what you are after. With that set correctly,
environments inferred default will be correct, e.g.
CHEF_REPO_PATH/environments.
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L186

hope this helps~

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Stephen Corbesero
Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:
Thanks for the link.. I am looking at it now.

According to my understanding of that code, it looks like it should be trying to set the default "top" to be the directory above the cookbooks path. I have two issues with that.
The cookbook path is usually an array, not a simple string. I even made my cookbook path just a string, and it still failed.
When I try to depend on a path for the other objects, I get an error message like the following:
  % knife environment from file dev.json
  ERROR: Could not find or open file 'dev.json' in current directory or in 'environments/dev.json'
Which is implying that path it is using for the lookup is just "environments/" and not anything that I have set, or anything that knows about the top of the chef-repo

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:23 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L111-L128

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

The knife.rb lets you specify a cookbook_path.

I want to get the same effect for roles, environments, and data bags.

I have the following in my knife.rb file

current_dir = File.dirname(FILE)

cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]

the following don't seem to work.

role_path ["#{current_dir}/../roles"]

environment_path ["#{current_dir}/../environments"]

data_bag_path ["#{current_dir}/../data_bags"]

I remember seeing how to do this somewhere along time ago, but I can’t
find the original reference. I have been looking, and I see several
references that strongly imply these should work, or something similar
like making the object name plural (roles_path)

I have tried several permutations, including statements like
knife[:role_path] = …, but nothing seems to work.

Is it possible What is the correct format?

Thanks in advance.

--

Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World

stephen.corbesero@synchronoss.com | www.synchronoss.com

Stephen_Corbesero · January 9, 2015, 7:46pm

I still not have any success....

I also found there is an optional knife[:repository ], but setting that ior knife[:chef_repo_path] had no effect.

I still find some references to a repo_path directive in the knife.rb file, even an implied mention to setting role paths by the esteemed Joshua Tiimberman at http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2013/02/01/local-only-knife-configuration/

But nothing I have so far has worked.

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 4:08 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

Use Ruby's File#expand_path or similar to build the chef_repo_path by expanding it. I doubt it understands the '..'.

You can use something like File.dirname(__FILE__) inside of knife.rb to get the directory enclosing it, then join/expand from there.

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

Being able to set chef_repo_path does look like the cleanest way. And it makes sense to know the top of the tree.

How do I set it in my knife config.

I just tried both of the following

chef_repo_path "#{current_dir}/.."
knife[:chef_repo_path] = "#{current_dir}/.."

where current_dir is expected to be the directory of my knife.rb, which is in .chef under the chef-repo.

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:48 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

cookbook_path is indeed an array of strings or a string. when
chef_repo_path is set, it is inferred to be
chef_repo_path/cookbooks. otherwise it defaults to
[chef_repo_path/cookbooks, chef_repo_path/site-cookbooks]

$ knife upload environments/dev.json

'environment from file' takes a path to a file to upload. I used to
use it with shell loops:

$ for i in environments/*.json ; do knife environment from file $i ;
done

I think chef_repo_path is what you are after. With that set correctly,
environments inferred default will be correct, e.g.
CHEF_REPO_PATH/environments.
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L186

hope this helps~

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Stephen Corbesero
Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:
Thanks for the link.. I am looking at it now.

According to my understanding of that code, it looks like it should be trying to set the default "top" to be the directory above the cookbooks path. I have two issues with that.
The cookbook path is usually an array, not a simple string. I even made my cookbook path just a string, and it still failed.
When I try to depend on a path for the other objects, I get an error message like the following:
  % knife environment from file dev.json
  ERROR: Could not find or open file 'dev.json' in current directory or in 'environments/dev.json'
Which is implying that path it is using for the lookup is just
"environments/" and not anything that I have set, or anything that
knows about the top of the chef-repo

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:23 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L111-L
128

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

The knife.rb lets you specify a cookbook_path.

I want to get the same effect for roles, environments, and data bags.

I have the following in my knife.rb file

current_dir = File.dirname(FILE)

cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]

the following don't seem to work.

role_path ["#{current_dir}/../roles"]

environment_path ["#{current_dir}/../environments"]

data_bag_path ["#{current_dir}/../data_bags"]

I remember seeing how to do this somewhere along time ago, but I
can’t find the original reference. I have been looking, and I see
several references that strongly imply these should work, or
something similar like making the object name plural (roles_path)

I have tried several permutations, including statements like
knife[:role_path] = …, but nothing seems to work.

Is it possible What is the correct format?

Thanks in advance.

--

Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World

stephen.corbesero@synchronoss.com | www.synchronoss.com

AJ_Christensen2 · January 9, 2015, 8:04pm

What version of chef? gist your knife.rb

cheers,

--aj

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Stephen Corbesero
Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

I still not have any success....

I also found there is an optional knife[:repository ], but setting that ior knife[:chef_repo_path] had no effect.

I still find some references to a repo_path directive in the knife.rb file, even an implied mention to setting role paths by the esteemed Joshua Tiimberman at http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2013/02/01/local-only-knife-configuration/

But nothing I have so far has worked.

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 4:08 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

Use Ruby's File#expand_path or similar to build the chef_repo_path by expanding it. I doubt it understands the '..'.

You can use something like File.dirname(__FILE__) inside of knife.rb to get the directory enclosing it, then join/expand from there.

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:
Being able to set chef_repo_path does look like the cleanest way. And it makes sense to know the top of the tree.

How do I set it in my knife config.

I just tried both of the following

chef_repo_path "#{current_dir}/.."
knife[:chef_repo_path] = "#{current_dir}/.."

where current_dir is expected to be the directory of my knife.rb, which is in .chef under the chef-repo.

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:48 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

cookbook_path is indeed an array of strings or a string. when
chef_repo_path is set, it is inferred to be
chef_repo_path/cookbooks. otherwise it defaults to
[chef_repo_path/cookbooks, chef_repo_path/site-cookbooks]

$ knife upload environments/dev.json

'environment from file' takes a path to a file to upload. I used to
use it with shell loops:

$ for i in environments/*.json ; do knife environment from file $i ;
done

I think chef_repo_path is what you are after. With that set correctly,
environments inferred default will be correct, e.g.
CHEF_REPO_PATH/environments.
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L186

hope this helps~

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Stephen Corbesero
Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:
Thanks for the link.. I am looking at it now.

According to my understanding of that code, it looks like it should be trying to set the default "top" to be the directory above the cookbooks path. I have two issues with that.
The cookbook path is usually an array, not a simple string. I even made my cookbook path just a string, and it still failed.
When I try to depend on a path for the other objects, I get an error message like the following:
  % knife environment from file dev.json
  ERROR: Could not find or open file 'dev.json' in current directory or in 'environments/dev.json'
Which is implying that path it is using for the lookup is just
"environments/" and not anything that I have set, or anything that
knows about the top of the chef-repo

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:23 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L111-L
128

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

The knife.rb lets you specify a cookbook_path.

I want to get the same effect for roles, environments, and data bags.

I have the following in my knife.rb file

current_dir = File.dirname(FILE)

cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]

the following don't seem to work.

role_path ["#{current_dir}/../roles"]

environment_path ["#{current_dir}/../environments"]

data_bag_path ["#{current_dir}/../data_bags"]

I remember seeing how to do this somewhere along time ago, but I
can’t find the original reference. I have been looking, and I see
several references that strongly imply these should work, or
something similar like making the object name plural (roles_path)

I have tried several permutations, including statements like
knife[:role_path] = …, but nothing seems to work.

Is it possible What is the correct format?

Thanks in advance.

--

Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World

stephen.corbesero@synchronoss.com | www.synchronoss.com

Stephen_Corbesero · January 21, 2015, 5:49pm

I have done a little more digging, and here is what I have concluded.

Short answer: knife can't do what I want.

Long answers..

The chef_repo_path seems to only be relevant to the upload and download subcommands

The role_path directive was only recognized by spork. It was not a standard knife feature.

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 3:04 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

What version of chef? gist your knife.rb

cheers,

--aj

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

I still not have any success....

I also found there is an optional knife[:repository ], but setting that ior knife[:chef_repo_path] had no effect.

I still find some references to a repo_path directive in the knife.rb file, even an implied mention to setting role paths by the esteemed Joshua Tiimberman at http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2013/02/01/local-only-knife-configuration/

But nothing I have so far has worked.

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 4:08 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

Use Ruby's File#expand_path or similar to build the chef_repo_path by expanding it. I doubt it understands the '..'.

You can use something like File.dirname(__FILE__) inside of knife.rb to get the directory enclosing it, then join/expand from there.

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:
Being able to set chef_repo_path does look like the cleanest way. And it makes sense to know the top of the tree.

How do I set it in my knife config.

I just tried both of the following

chef_repo_path "#{current_dir}/.."
knife[:chef_repo_path] = "#{current_dir}/.."

where current_dir is expected to be the directory of my knife.rb, which is in .chef under the chef-repo.

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:48 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

cookbook_path is indeed an array of strings or a string. when
chef_repo_path is set, it is inferred to be
chef_repo_path/cookbooks. otherwise it defaults to
[chef_repo_path/cookbooks, chef_repo_path/site-cookbooks]

$ knife upload environments/dev.json

'environment from file' takes a path to a file to upload. I used to
use it with shell loops:

$ for i in environments/*.json ; do knife environment from file $i ;
done

I think chef_repo_path is what you are after. With that set
correctly, environments inferred default will be correct, e.g.
CHEF_REPO_PATH/environments.
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L186

hope this helps~

cheers,

--aj

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Stephen Corbesero
Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:
Thanks for the link.. I am looking at it now.

According to my understanding of that code, it looks like it should be trying to set the default "top" to be the directory above the cookbooks path. I have two issues with that.
The cookbook path is usually an array, not a simple string. I even made my cookbook path just a string, and it still failed.
When I try to depend on a path for the other objects, I get an error message like the following:
  % knife environment from file dev.json
  ERROR: Could not find or open file 'dev.json' in current directory or in 'environments/dev.json'
Which is implying that path it is using for the lookup is just
"environments/" and not anything that I have set, or anything that
knows about the top of the chef-repo

--
Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Christensen [mailto:aj@junglistheavy.industries]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:23 PM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Re: How do I set a path for roles, environments, and data bags in my knife.rb?

https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/config.rb#L111-
L
128

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Stephen Corbesero Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com wrote:

The knife.rb lets you specify a cookbook_path.

I want to get the same effect for roles, environments, and data bags.

I have the following in my knife.rb file

current_dir = File.dirname(FILE)

cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]

the following don't seem to work.

role_path ["#{current_dir}/../roles"]

environment_path ["#{current_dir}/../environments"]

data_bag_path ["#{current_dir}/../data_bags"]

I remember seeing how to do this somewhere along time ago, but I
can’t find the original reference. I have been looking, and I see
several references that strongly imply these should work, or
something similar like making the object name plural (roles_path)

I have tried several permutations, including statements like
knife[:role_path] = …, but nothing seems to work.

Is it possible What is the correct format?

Thanks in advance.

--

Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World

stephen.corbesero@synchronoss.com | www.synchronoss.com

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