Usage case: The DevOps team launched a node sometime ago, and my team would like to know what's the version(s) of one/several cookbook(s) being used in the run_list. Our DevOps team is firefightin...

I am trying to implement a wrapper cookbook by taking inspiration from How to Write Reusable Chef Cookbooks, Gangnam Style. I wish to install tomcat 7 on my node without manager app. I have created...

I have created a user 'testuser' by using chef. How to make this user as sudo user?

I have installed the PHP Cookbook from opscode and the chef-dotdeb cookbook found at chef-dotdeb so that I can run PHP 5.4 in the vagrant box. I would like to modify some of the default php.ini se...

I have cookbook base and cookbook myapp base has 2 recipes - my_java and java_with_custom_stuff in java_with_custom_stuff I want to use the recipe for my_java (same cookbook). something like inc...

Let's say I want to use a community cookbook (i.e. http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/gerrit). So I will download it using 'knife cookbook site download ' and upload to my local chef server. I ...

In a cookbook I have a library(client_helper.rb). A module is defined inside it. Module name is Client_helper. Here is the module code. module Client_helper # This module contains helper methods ...

I am trying develop a cookbook to make a flask app work with gunicorn and nginx. I have been successful to the point that the app is running very well with a local sqlite database, see my cookbook ...

So this might be a little confusing but bear with me. In short I want to loop over all attributes with a certain key value and then insert them into a template if the values are not empty. Here is ...

I read a solution in the Python Cookbooks for creating a function that only allows name arguments. I wrote my own code to try it out: class Reporter(object): def __init__(self, *, testline=None, ...

I have this in my notes that {"run_list":["recipe[[email protected]]"]} is possible to explicitly specify a cookbook version to use in a nodes run_list but i can't get it to work and can't fin...

I have long history of a cookbook that has a recipe of the app and is constantly modified. It got to the point where cookbook version is 226. I'm wondering how can upload files to specific cookbook...

Some developers who have a good knowledge of querying SQL databases struggle to implement the equivalent query patterns in Cloudant/CouchDB. How can these developers translate their SQL knowledge ...

Currently I am using open source chef and having number of nodes chef client is installed. I want the chef client to run in specific intervals. Any good cookbooks out there to configure it.

I followed tutorial http://gettingstartedwithchef.com/, chapter 1. My run list is "run_list": [ "recipe[apt]", "recipe[phpap]" ] My default recipe of phpap cookbook include_recipe "apache2" ...

Please help me with the recipe to pull the cookbook name and version during the chef-client run. I want to store the values to variables and use as part of my recipe. I am finding difficulty on h...

I'm developing a cookbook to deploy a simple ROR application. I write an app_helper.rb and put it into the libraries directory of my cookbook, here is the content: module AppHelper def self.find...

If we have in Chef cookbook code like: if !File.exists?('/vagrant/project/target/project/WEB-INF") || node[:compile_project] bash "build project" do user "vagrant" cwd "/vagrant/project" code ...

I'm using berkshelf to manage cookbooks, chef 11.6.2, and nginx cookbook v 2.0.0 my settings to compile nginx from source: set[:nginx][:source][:modules] = ["http_gzip_static_module", "http_ssl_m...

Here is an example of a working recipe that loops through an array of website names and creates them in IIS using the function createIisWebsite(). def createIisWebsite(websiteName) iis_site websi...

I am trying to install the fog gem in a chef recipe though the gem installation occurs before the native packages are being installed so the gem installation fails package "libxslt-dev" package "l...

I've just discovered Vagrant + Chef and I'm trying to create a simple recipe to install multiple packages on the node. I thought something like this could work (I'm completely new tu ruby): # (Fro...