If you need an env var set strictly within the Chef process, you can use ENV[‘foo’] = ‘bar‘ since it’s a ruby process. If you need to set one for an execute provider, Chef exposes an environment hash: execute ‘Bootstrap the database’ do cwd “#{app_dir}/current” command “#{env_cmd} rake db:drop db:create db:schema:load RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env}” environment ‘HOME’ => … Read more
default.nginx_upstreams is the same as default[:nginx_upstreams] and default[‘nginx_upstreams’] – the convention is to use 1 of the latter two. And as you are using strings further, use them here too. The way you init nginx_upstreams in attribute file is the same as doing it this way: default[‘nginx_upstreams’][‘service1’] = [‘service1.server.com’] default[‘nginx_upstreams’][‘service2’] = [‘service2.server.com’] And you don’t … Read more
As I see it, any recipe should be able to run on an empty machine on its own. So if some recipe A depends on recipe B run before it, I always use include_recipe. For example: 2 cookbooks, tomcat and java. Tomcat requires java. When some user wants to install tomcat, he may have no … Read more