Chef solo's role_path should allow for an array of paths

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Critical Critical
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 0.10.8
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Chef Solo

Description

Right now role_path only accepts one directory. Need to expand this so it can accept multiple paths and it scans them for the role similar to the way that cookbook_path works.

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Amos Lanka added a comment -

+1

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Chris Gaffney added a comment -

I ran into a similar problem today with a specific use case. Our chef repo is managing a growing number of applications and each can have several roles. To help organization we've been using subdirectories for namespacing. Our role names also take into account the namespace (dogs-application is in dog/application.rb). This setup works fine with chef server since we're uploading the files but with chef-solo it cannot find dogs-application even if roles/dogs is the role_path.

Example:

roles/dogs/application.rb    # => dogs-applications
roles/dogs/database.rb       # => dogs-database
roles/ferrets/application.rb # => ferrets-application

It would be nice if role_path could be recursively search the tree under role_path and use the name field instead of the filename.

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Chris Gaffney added a comment - I ran into a similar problem today with a specific use case. Our chef repo is managing a growing number of applications and each can have several roles. To help organization we've been using subdirectories for namespacing. Our role names also take into account the namespace (dogs-application is in dog/application.rb). This setup works fine with chef server since we're uploading the files but with chef-solo it cannot find dogs-application even if roles/dogs is the role_path. Example: roles/dogs/application.rb # => dogs-applications roles/dogs/database.rb # => dogs-database roles/ferrets/application.rb # => ferrets-application It would be nice if role_path could be recursively search the tree under role_path and use the name field instead of the filename.
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Igor Kurochkin added a comment -

+1

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Ivan Larionov added a comment -

I'd like to have this feature too. And same for data bags.

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Ivan Larionov added a comment - I'd like to have this feature too. And same for data bags.
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Alexander Amanuel added a comment -

I'd like to see this feature too.

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Alexander Amanuel added a comment - I'd like to see this feature too.
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Titov Alexander added a comment -

This feature can be a very good functionality for big teams and complex applications with a lot of components, when we need to split chef-repo for many others. I would like to have this feature.

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Titov Alexander added a comment - This feature can be a very good functionality for big teams and complex applications with a lot of components, when we need to split chef-repo for many others. I would like to have this feature.

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    Reporter:
    Nathan Brown
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