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meallhour
meallhour

Reputation: 15599

How to use OHAI attributes within a chef role that is defined in JSON format?

I want to know what is the correct way to assign node['ipaddress'] OHAI attribute within the chef role. My chef role is defined in the JSON format.

{  
  "name": "temp_role",  
  "description": "This is temp role",  
  "json_class": "Chef::Role",  
  "default_attributes": {  
"client_addr": #{node['ipaddress']}  
  },  
  "override_attributes": {  
  },    
  "chef_type": "role",  
  "run_list": [  
   "recipe[test::prereq]"  
  ],  
  "env_run_lists": {  
  }  
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 639

Answers (1)

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54251

You cannot use ohai data in roles, JSON format or otherwise. Roles are purely static data, converted to JSON during upload even if they are using the .rb DSL. anything dynamic must live in a cookbook, in this case probably a role-pattern cookbook.

Upvotes: 1

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