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SecondThought
Asked: 2012-12-24 07:43:49 +0800 CST

Chef - multiple files dynamic template resource

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I'm trying to find a way to apply template resource dynamically on all files which are in a folder inside the cookbook's template folder. something like:

Dir.foreach("../templates/default/shared/") do | file | # This is the wrong line...
  template "/home/admin/shared/#{file}" do
    source "shared/#{file}"
    …
  end
end

how can I do it? I'm trying to avoid having a separate list of all the files in this directory as a variable... thanks.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Your code will be executed in the context of a node, so your Ruby code (Dir.foreach) will need to examine the node's local cache. In my Chef installation, the local cache path is required for my chef-client configuration template, so I have this attribute: node[:chef][:cache_path].

    So:

    Dir.foreach("#{node[:chef][:cache_path]}/cookbooks/the_cookbook/templates/default/shared/")

    EDIT: In modern Chef configurations, templates won't exist on the server until they're needed. You'll need to add this to your client.rb:

    no_lazy_load true
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