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I'm generating a config for my service in chef attributes. However, at some point, I need to turn the attribute mash into a simple ruby hash. This used to work fine in Chef 10: node.myapp.config.to_hash However, starting with Chef 11, this does not work. Only the top-level of the attribute is converted to a hash, with then nested values remaining immutable mash objects. Modifying them leads to errors like this: Chef::Exceptions::ImmutableAttributeModification ------------------------------------------------ Node attributes are read-only when you do not specify which precedence level to set. To

Intro I am learning Chef to automate the server management at work. I downloaded chefdk 3.0 from here and now I am trying to build my first cookbook using chef. Important I am using this in a Windows environment for testing purpose, I do expect it to fail since Windows does not have iptables, but I do not expect it to fail saying that it can't find the cookbook. I've tried using Windows cookbook and it works. The problem I am able to create the cookbook and run it, but I am not able to reference dependencies from supermarket. I have tried two alternatives: Alternative 1 I used the following

I am using an cookbook github.com opscode-cookbooks/openldap. I wrote an wrapper cookbook "lab_openldap" that includes "openldap::server" recipe. The server.rb recipe uses following clausule to upload the PEM file from cookbooks files/ssl/*.pem to server to the location node['openldap']['ssl_cert']. if node['openldap']['tls_enabled'] && node['openldap']['manage_ssl'] cookbook_file node['openldap']['ssl_cert'] do source "ssl/#{node['openldap']['server']}.pem" mode 00644 owner "root" group "root" end end The PEM is tried to be read from "openldap" cookbook file/ssl/#{node['openldap']['server']}

I have already created a databag item which is existing on the chef server. Now, I am trying to pass on that databag item secret value to a docker container. I am creating the data bag as follows: knife data bag create bag_secrets bag_masterkey --secret-file C:\path\data_bag_secret I am retrieving value of that databag item in Chef recipe as follows: secret = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load_secret("#{node['secret']}") masterkey = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load("databag_secrets", "databag_masterkey", secret) What logic do i need to add to pass on the data bag secret to a docker container? I've

Hello I am having issues getting chef to checkout my git repo using an ssh key from my data_bag. Below is my git resource: repo_key = search(:git, "id:git_key").first git_key_file = "#{Chef::Config['file_cache_path']}/git_key/id_rsa" directory "#{Chef::Config['file_cache_path']}/git_key" do action :create end file git_key_file do content repo_key['deploy_key'] mode "0755" action :create_if_missing end git "/usr/share/my_repo" do repository "git@github.com:my_name/some_repo.git" checkout_branch "#{node["my_app"][:test_branch]}" action :sync ssh_wrapper "ssh -i #{git_key_file}" end When I run: