Where is the list of (to be) executed recipes for a node?

I want a node to be able to print the recipes that were or were to be executed during a chef-client run, including recipes that come from “include_recipe” statements.

I can’t just use the run list because that is not fully expanded. I have seen various attempts at doing this, but none seem to work well or completely.


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

The minitest handler cookbook handles the "were executed" case like so:
https://github.com/btm/minitest-handler-cookbook/blob/master/libraries/test_loader.rb#L99-L104.
Not sure if this falls into one of the various attempts that falls short,
but passing it along in case it helps.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Stephen Corbesero <
Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com> wrote:

I want a node to be able to print the recipes that were or were to be
executed during a chef-client run, including recipes that come from
“include_recipe” statements.

I can’t just use the run list because that is not fully expanded. I have
seen various attempts at doing this, but none seem to work well or
completely.

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Stephen Corbesero, DevOps Engineer

Synchronoss - Mobile Innovation for a Connected World

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

In the latest chef-client, the recipes node attribute includes recipes executed via include_recipe. Of course, chef-client doesn’t know the future, so if you look at this while chef-client is compiling your recipes, there could be a recipe that will be loaded later but doesn’t appear in that attribute.

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Daniel DeLeo

On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 5:53 AM, David Petzel wrote:

The minitest handler cookbook handles the "were executed" case like so: https://github.com/btm/minitest-handler-cookbook/blob/master/libraries/test_loader.rb#L99-L104. Not sure if this falls into one of the various attempts that falls short, but passing it along in case it helps.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Stephen Corbesero <Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com (mailto:Stephen.Corbesero@synchronoss.com)> wrote:

I want a node to be able to print the recipes that were or were to be executed during a chef-client run, including recipes that come from “include_recipe” statements.

I can’t just use the run list because that is not fully expanded. I have seen various attempts at doing this, but none seem to work well or completely.

--
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)

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:57:06 -0700 Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com
wrote:

In the latest chef-client, the recipes node attribute includes
recipes executed via include_recipe. Of course, chef-client doesn’t
know the future, so if you look at this while chef-client is
compiling your recipes, there could be a recipe that will be loaded
later but doesn’t appear in that attribute.

But a recipe can fetch the resulting recipes-list from the last run with
a search for itself on the chef server. Doesn't work with chef-solo
though...

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