run recipe twice

[sdarwin]

A pattern that might be followed in a cookbook is:

node.default['users'] << 'exampleuser'
include_recipe 'user::data_bag'

However if a run_list includes multiple cookbooks (and it usually does) and more than one cookbook tries that pattern, it will fail. Because you can not include_recipe twice.

So, node.default['users'] = ['exampleuser', 'exampleuser2'] has to be set somewhere else, outside the cookbook as an extra step, such as on a role or node.

Or, have user_account directly:

In your_cookbook/recipes/default.rb

user_account 'hsolo' do
ssh_keygen true
end

Then the data is not in a data_bag, it must be directly in the cookbook.

It would be nice if user_account could load data from a data_bag, or if a new lwrp loaded a user_account from a databag. or you could include_recipe twice.

what is the easiest way to handle this case?

[sdarwin]

a generic solution, although not exactly the same as mentioned in this ticket, can be the standard opscode users cookbook, users_manage resource.