How to NOT run a complete recipe?

Alexander_Skwar · September 29, 2015, 2:10pm

Hello

Using chef-solo and Chef 11.8.2, how do I “exit out” of a recipe?

Sorry to bother you all again, but as I’m not so successful in “filtering
out” recipes if a pre-condition is (not) met
http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2015-09/msg00292.html, I’m now
looking for a way to “leave” a recipe very early, when a condition is met
(specifically, if a user account cannot be found with “getent passwd foo”
(as node[‘etc’][‘passwd’]
http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2015-09/msg00175.html doesn’t
work http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2015-09/msg00175.html)).

Basically, I’d like to have something like:

if env[‘skip’]
leave recipe
end

And “env[‘skip’]” should check the environment variable “skip”. If it’s
set, the recipe shouldn’t be run.

How can I do that?

Thanks a lot and best regards,
Alexander

kwilczynski · September 29, 2015, 2:14pm

Hello,

Add return statement where you need to interrupt the client run, for example:

if need_additional_minerals?
warn 'Not enough minerals!'
return
end

Krzysztof

On 29 September 2015 at 23:10, Alexander Skwar
alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com wrote:

Hello

Using chef-solo and Chef 11.8.2, how do I "exit out" of a recipe?

Sorry to bother you all again, but as I'm not so successful in "filtering
out" recipes if a pre-condition is (not) met, I'm now looking for a way to
"leave" a recipe very early, when a condition is met (specifically, if a
user account cannot be found with "getent passwd foo" (as
node['etc']['passwd'] doesn't work :()).

Basically, I'd like to have something like:

if env['skip']
leave recipe
end

And "env['skip']" should check the environment variable "skip". If it's set,
the recipe shouldn't be run.

How can I do that?

Thanks a lot and best regards,
Alexander

kwilczynski · September 29, 2015, 2:16pm

Hi,

Doh.

I will correct myself - not interrupt the client run, but rather
return from the recipe without progressing further.

Krzysztof

On 29 September 2015 at 23:14, Krzysztof Wilczynski
krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com wrote:

Hello,

Add return statement where you need to interrupt the client run, for example:

if need_additional_minerals?
warn 'Not enough minerals!'
return
end

Krzysztof

On 29 September 2015 at 23:10, Alexander Skwar
alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com wrote:

Hello

Using chef-solo and Chef 11.8.2, how do I "exit out" of a recipe?

Sorry to bother you all again, but as I'm not so successful in "filtering
out" recipes if a pre-condition is (not) met, I'm now looking for a way to
"leave" a recipe very early, when a condition is met (specifically, if a
user account cannot be found with "getent passwd foo" (as
node['etc']['passwd'] doesn't work :()).

Basically, I'd like to have something like:

if env['skip']
leave recipe
end

And "env['skip']" should check the environment variable "skip". If it's set,
the recipe shouldn't be run.

How can I do that?

Thanks a lot and best regards,
Alexander

Alexander_Skwar · September 29, 2015, 3:03pm

Hi

Thanks a lot. And to completely exit out of the chef run, "raise" would be
the way to go. Possibly with a Chef::Log message before.

Thanks a lot,
Alexander

2015-09-29 16:16 GMT+02:00 Krzysztof Wilczynski <
krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com>:

Hi,

Doh.

I will correct myself - not interrupt the client run, but rather
return from the recipe without progressing further.

Krzysztof

On 29 September 2015 at 23:14, Krzysztof Wilczynski
krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com wrote:

Hello,

Add return statement where you need to interrupt the client run, for
example:

if need_additional_minerals?
warn 'Not enough minerals!'
return
end

Krzysztof

On 29 September 2015 at 23:10, Alexander Skwar
alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com wrote:

Hello

Using chef-solo and Chef 11.8.2, how do I "exit out" of a recipe?

Sorry to bother you all again, but as I'm not so successful in
"filtering
out" recipes if a pre-condition is (not) met, I'm now looking for a way
to
"leave" a recipe very early, when a condition is met (specifically, if a
user account cannot be found with "getent passwd foo" (as
node['etc']['passwd'] doesn't work :()).

Basically, I'd like to have something like:

if env['skip']
leave recipe
end

And "env['skip']" should check the environment variable "skip". If it's
set,
the recipe shouldn't be run.

How can I do that?

Thanks a lot and best regards,
Alexander

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Ranjib · September 29, 2015, 3:46pm

not sure if return will work, you might get a local jump error, since the
recipes are instance_evaled.
you should do this on top level recipe or wrapper recipes, i.e check for
the condition, and include_recipe accordingly., i.e.

in parent recipe cookbook::parent

if node.foo.bar
include_recipe 'cookbook::child'
end

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Alexander Skwar <
alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

Thanks a lot. And to completely exit out of the chef run, "raise" would be
the way to go. Possibly with a Chef::Log message before.

Thanks a lot,
Alexander

2015-09-29 16:16 GMT+02:00 Krzysztof Wilczynski <
krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com>:

Hi,

Doh.

I will correct myself - not interrupt the client run, but rather
return from the recipe without progressing further.

Krzysztof

On 29 September 2015 at 23:14, Krzysztof Wilczynski
krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com wrote:

Hello,

Add return statement where you need to interrupt the client run, for
example:

if need_additional_minerals?
warn 'Not enough minerals!'
return
end

Krzysztof

On 29 September 2015 at 23:10, Alexander Skwar
alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com wrote:

Hello

Using chef-solo and Chef 11.8.2, how do I "exit out" of a recipe?

Sorry to bother you all again, but as I'm not so successful in
"filtering
out" recipes if a pre-condition is (not) met, I'm now looking for a
way to
"leave" a recipe very early, when a condition is met (specifically, if
a
user account cannot be found with "getent passwd foo" (as
node['etc']['passwd'] doesn't work :()).

Basically, I'd like to have something like:

if env['skip']
leave recipe
end

And "env['skip']" should check the environment variable "skip". If
it's set,
the recipe shouldn't be run.

How can I do that?

Thanks a lot and best regards,
Alexander

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kallistec · September 29, 2015, 4:21pm

To skip to the end of the entire run without causing an error, you can throw :end_client_run_early which will jump up to here: https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/8f65f75b2ae48ed33cfce1853edcdcc1a949b9c3/lib/chef/client.rb#L648

This can definitely skip all kinds of reporting stuff, right now it’s primarily used to trigger a system restart when that is required for chef to continue to make progress converging the machine (as is common on windows).

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On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Ranjib Dey wrote:

not sure if return will work, you might get a local jump error, since the recipes are instance_evaled.
you should do this on top level recipe or wrapper recipes, i.e check for the condition, and include_recipe accordingly., i.e.

in parent recipe cookbook::parent

if node.foo.bar
include_recipe 'cookbook::child'
end

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Alexander Skwar <alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com (mailto:alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com)> wrote:

Hi

Thanks a lot. And to completely exit out of the chef run, "raise" would be the way to go. Possibly with a Chef::Log message before.

Thanks a lot,
Alexander

2015-09-29 16:16 GMT+02:00 Krzysztof Wilczynski <krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com (mailto:krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com)>:

Hi,

Doh.

I will correct myself - not interrupt the client run, but rather
return from the recipe without progressing further.

Krzysztof

On 29 September 2015 at 23:14, Krzysztof Wilczynski
<krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com (mailto:krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com)> wrote:

Hello,

Add return statement where you need to interrupt the client run, for example:

if need_additional_minerals?
warn 'Not enough minerals!'
return
end

Krzysztof

On 29 September 2015 at 23:10, Alexander Skwar
<alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com (mailto:alexanders.mailinglists%2Bnospam@gmail.com)> wrote:

Hello

Using chef-solo and Chef 11.8.2, how do I "exit out" of a recipe?

Sorry to bother you all again, but as I'm not so successful in "filtering
out" recipes if a pre-condition is (not) met, I'm now looking for a way to
"leave" a recipe very early, when a condition is met (specifically, if a
user account cannot be found with "getent passwd foo" (as
node['etc']['passwd'] doesn't work :()).

Basically, I'd like to have something like:

if env['skip']
leave recipe
end

And "env['skip']" should check the environment variable "skip". If it's set,
the recipe shouldn't be run.

How can I do that?

Thanks a lot and best regards,
Alexander

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Lamont_Granquist · September 29, 2015, 9:12pm

It will not local jump. A concrete example from our internal cookbooks,
if you want to have a recipe that is safe to include in the run_list on
windows boxes, but which NOPs the recipe you can do this:

return if platform_family?("windows")

stuff that works on linux and would make windows uphappy...

[...]

On 09/29/2015 08:46 AM, Ranjib Dey wrote:

not sure if return will work, you might get a local jump error, since
the recipes are instance_evaled.
you should do this on top level recipe or wrapper recipes, i.e check
for the condition, and include_recipe accordingly., i.e.

in parent recipe cookbook::parent

if node.foo.bar
include_recipe 'cookbook::child'
end

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Alexander Skwar
<alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com
mailto:alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

Thanks a lot. And to completely exit out of the chef run, "raise"
would be the way to go. Possibly with a Chef::Log message before.

Thanks a lot,
Alexander

2015-09-29 16:16 GMT+02:00 Krzysztof Wilczynski
<krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com
<mailto:krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com>>:

    Hi,

    Doh.

    I will correct myself - not interrupt the client run, but rather
    return from the recipe without progressing further.

    Krzysztof

    On 29 September 2015 at 23:14, Krzysztof Wilczynski
    <krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com
    <mailto:krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com>> wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > Add `return` statement where you need to interrupt the
    client run, for example:
    >
    > if need_additional_minerals?
    >  warn 'Not enough minerals!'
    >  return
    > end
    >
    > Krzysztof
    >
    > On 29 September 2015 at 23:10, Alexander Skwar
    > <alexanders.mailinglists+nospam@gmail.com
    <mailto:alexanders.mailinglists%2Bnospam@gmail.com>> wrote:
    >> Hello
    >>
    >> Using chef-solo and Chef 11.8.2, how do I "exit out" of a
    recipe?
    >>
    >> Sorry to bother you all again, but as I'm not so successful
    in "filtering
    >> out" recipes if a pre-condition is (not) met, I'm now
    looking for a way to
    >> "leave" a recipe very early, when a condition is met
    (specifically, if a
    >> user account cannot be found with "getent passwd foo" (as
    >> node['etc']['passwd'] doesn't work :()).
    >>
    >> Basically, I'd like to have something like:
    >>
    >> if env['skip']
    >>    leave recipe
    >> end
    >>
    >> And "env['skip']" should check the environment variable
    "skip". If it's set,
    >> the recipe shouldn't be run.
    >>
    >> How can I do that?
    >>
    >> Thanks a lot and best regards,
    >> Alexander




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How to NOT run a complete recipe?

Alexander

in parent recipe cookbook::parent

Alexander

in parent recipe cookbook::parent

stuff that works on linux and would make windows uphappy...

in parent recipe cookbook::parent

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