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srajappa
srajappa

Reputation: 481

Is it possible to use notifies statement by having a service declared in another recipe, in chef?

eg.

The directory structure of the recipes is as follows:

--my_cookbook |-- recipes |- abc.rb |- xyz.rb |-- attributes |-- templates |- random.xml.erb |-- test

Now let's assume we have a resource as follows in abc.rb

... # Line 20 template '/some_location/random.xml' do source 'random.xml.erb' owner 'root' group 'root' mode '0644' notifies :start, 'service[vicious_service]', :immediately end ... # Line 28

Now we have the declaration of vicious_service which is as follows:

service 'vicious_service' do action [:enable, :start] end

The question now is, Can we have the declaration of vicious_service somewhere in xyz.rb ? Or is it mandatory for us to declare it in abc.rb ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 27

Answers (1)

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54267

Yes, what recipe things are in doesn't matter to Chef beyond the original loading phase. Everything ends up in a big array called the "resource collection". You can find more details at https://coderanger.net/two-pass/.

Upvotes: 1

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