habichef_generator

This is a ChefDK "Generator Cookbook" designed to facilitate creating "HabiChef" projects.

Long story short, I really like the idea of "Chef cookbooks as project Templates". I'd like to convince the Chef folks to help me figure out how to extend chef generate a la Cookiecutter to be able to generate "arbitrary" templates.

If you already have ChefDK or ChefWKS, (which, even if you aren't using Chef, why aren't you using Kitchen? Which comes as part of ChefDK...) it's much easier to use the built-in generator than to go and install another tool...

Usage

Setup

Let's setup a demo dir and call it habidemo. Hopefully unique enough you don't already have that in your homedir, and short enough it's not too crazy to type. We're going to assume a bash or otherwise POSIX compliant shell. Please adapt commands as necessary.

$ cd ~
$ mkdir -p ~/habidemo/demo
$ cd ~/habidemo

Clone the repo

$ git clone git@github.com:qubitrenegade/habichef_generator_demo.git

Run ChefDK Generator

$ chef generate cookbook ../demo/myhabichefproject -g habichef_generator_demo/generator_cookbook/habichef_generator

You can optionally set HAB_ORIGIN environment variable or pass -a hab_origin=<your origin> (this example sets both for demonstrative purposes only. You do not need to set both. If both are set -a takes precedence over ENV['HAB_ORIGIN'])

HAB_ORIGIN=foo chef generate cookbook ../test/foo -a hab_origin='foo' -g .

Run the Cookbook

Create environment.json

Run the chef-client

(untested)

$ chef-client --local-mode --recipe-url='https://github.com/qubitrenegade/habichef_generator_demo/cookbooks/habichef_generator' --json-attributes demo.json

This seems to work.

sudo chef-client -z --runlist 'recipe[habichef_generator]' -c client.rb