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Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition

You're reading from   Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Second Edition Over 80 recipes to automate your cloud and server infrastructure with Chef and its associated toolset

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287947
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Chef Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 2. Evaluating and Troubleshooting Cookbooks and Chef Runs 3. Chef Language and Style 4. Writing Better Cookbooks 5. Working with Files and Packages 6. Users and Applications 7. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure Index

Using pure Ruby in templates for conditionals and iterations

Switching options on and off in a configuration file is a pretty common thing. Since Chef uses ERB as its template language, you can use pure Ruby to control the flow in your templates. You can use conditionals or even loops in your templates.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have a cookbook called my_cookbook and that the run_list of your node includes my_cookbook, as described in the Creating and using cookbooks recipe in Chapter 1, Chef Infrastructure.

How to do it...

Let's create a hypothetical configuration file listing the IP addresses of a given set of backend servers. We only want to print that list and set a flag called enabled to true:

  1. Edit your cookbook's default recipe:
    mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ subl cookbooks/my_cookbook/recipes/default.rb
    
    template "/tmp/backends.conf" do
      mode "0444"
      owner "root"
      group "root"
      variables({
        :enabled => true,
        :backends =&gt...
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