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Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

By : Marschall
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Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

3.7 (6)
By: Marschall

Overview of this book

This book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It helps if you've already played around with Chef; however, this book covers all the important topics you will need to know. If you don't want to dig through a whole book before you can get started, this book is for you, as it features a set of independent recipes you can try out immediately.
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Using search to find data bag items


You might want to execute code in your recipe multiple times—once for each data bag item, such as for each user or each HTTP end point.

You can use search to find certain data bag items and loop through search results to execute code multiple times.

Let's see how we can make our recipes more dynamic by searching for data bag items.

Getting ready

Follow the Getting ready and How to do it... (steps 1 to 4) sections in the Using data bags recipe in this chapter. You might want to add a few more HTTP end points to your data bag.

How to do it...

Let's create a recipe to search for data bag items and call the http_request resource for everyone:

  1. Edit the default recipe of my_cookbook to retrieve all HTTP hooks, which should be called by your recipe from your data bag:

    mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ subl cookbooks/my_cookbook/recipes/default.rb
    
    search(:hooks, '*:*').each do |hook|
      http_request 'callback' do
        url hook['url']
      end
    end
  2. Upload your modified recipe to the...

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