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Jeetendra Pujari
Jeetendra Pujari

Reputation: 1344

Is there a way set chef attribute using environment variables?

I am trying to do the following with no success

default['foo']['bar'] = ENV['baz']

It is resolving to empty, even though I have set up the environment variable.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 300

Answers (1)

Mr.
Mr.

Reputation: 10122

ruby native code which is not wrapped with chef resource, such as ruby_block, will be executed in the compilation phase of chef-client run, and i think this is not your intention.

note that when you use an environment variable, you will need to set it on the converged node.

i would strongly recommend you not to use an environment variable, but to switch to node attribute, which can be set using the --json-attributes option for chef-client. see this answer for an example.

Upvotes: 1

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