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Steve Bennett
Asked: 2012-08-15 22:12:04 +0800 CST

How to find the Chef environment in a recipe?

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I want to run a cookbook_file resource only if the current environment is "dev". How can this be expressed?

The documentation suggests this:

In a recipe, a code block like this would be useful:

qa_nodes = search(:node,"chef_environment:QA")      
qa_nodes.each do |qa_node|                          
    # Do useful specific to qa nodes only
end

But I'm not sure that's what I want - the fact it's a loop seems wrong.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Look in the chef_environment Ruby attribute (not a regular Chef attribute) on the node:

    if node.chef_environment == "dev"
  # stuff
end
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  2. another elegant way:

    if ['production','development'].include? node.chef_environment
    #do something here
end
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