Where do I have to specify the run-list in local-mode?

问题

How can in configure the chef-client to know the run_list to run every 15min?

I start the chef-client run with "chef-client --local-mode -j run_list.json" which works as expected.

To provide a chef run every 15min, I add the chef client cookbook as dependency. In the log file I can see that the chef run starts (in local mode) every 15min, but the run_list is empty for every further run.

Where do I have to add the information that the second chef-run should use the same run-list as in the first run? I couldn`t find any place in the client.rb file.

回答1:

you can define you own attributes within a json file and use it as a part of the chef-client run.

for instance, having an json file named attrs.json that look like:

{
  "run_list": [
    "'recipe[base::default]'"
  ]
}

use chef-client in conjunction with [--json-attributes, something like:

chef-client --local-mode --json-attributes /path/to/attrs.json

or you can use chef-client in conjunction with --runlist

chef-client --local-mode --runlist 'recipe[base::default]'

if the node_path setting is used in chef-client confiugration, client.rb, after chef-client run, a node.json file will be written to the node_path, which can be used as a presistency for a periodically execution.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61321449/where-do-i-have-to-specify-the-run-list-in-local-mode