How can I display the output of a Opscode Chef bash command in my console?

Question

I use Vagrant to spawn a standard \"precise32\" box and provision it with Chef so I can test my Node.js code on Linux when I work on a Windows machine. This works fine.

Answer 1

Use the live_stream attribute of the execute resource

execute 'foo' do
  command 'cat /etc/hosts'
  live_stream true
  action :run
end

Script output will be printed to the console

   Starting Chef Client, version 12.18.31
   resolving cookbooks for run list: ["apt::default", "foobar::default"]
   Synchronizing Cookbooks:
   Converging 2 resources
   Recipe: foobar::default
     * execute[foo] action run
       [execute] 127.0.0.1  default-ubuntu-1604 default-ubuntu-1604
          127.0.0.1 localhost
          127.0.1.1 vagrant.vm  vagrant
          ::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
          ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
          ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
       - execute cat /etc/hosts

https://docs.chef.io/resource_execute.html