Repo specific config?

[davidpelaez]

Hi.

In our company we'd like to track the sharp config in the repository.We have a knife.rb that we can track in git and we'd like to keep our stack files fully containerized. I forked the current version and see it would be very hard to solve.

However, I wanted to check if there's a specific reason why you have avoided this and if you'd think it'd be useful. Then maybe we could contribute this simple add-on.

Looking forward,

DPT

[josqu4red]

Hi,

By tracking the sharp config, you mean in the same repo as cookbooks and chef things ?
Well, it is just a path problem, isn't it ?

For us it's just another dotfile, so each one tracks it the way he wants...

Not sure to understand the problem

[josqu4red]

Since knife.rb accepts any directive, you can add an option in it, for instance :

sharp_config_path '/path/to/your/sharp-config.yml'

Then, in SharpAlign#setup, if the option is set, add its value to the array of possible configs or even override its content.

Here: https://github.com/Fotolia/knife-sharp/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/sharp-align.rb#L63

[davidpelaez]

Yeah, I want to have the file in [chef-repo]/config/sharp-config.yml, so I just put in knife.rb the directive you mentioned?

I was going to quit, because I keep getting a "wrong data bag path". The config to the git repo is correct and I just don't know what else to do. I edited the gem locally to show what the path of the problem was, this is the output:

$ knife sharp align master _default -D
WARNING: Bad data bag path /var/chef/data_bags, skipping data bag sync.
Nothing else to do

I have no idea why the path it's using is that one and not the one set in global, git_cookbook_path in the yaml file.

[josqu4red]

About the config path, if you want to put the directive in knife.rb, you have to retrieve it in the code where I mentionned, no magic there :)

About the data bags, the documentation is indeed lacking that very detail, we will update it in the next days.
git_cookbook_path was introduced when the tool only supported cookbook syncing.
To use data bag and role syncing, you have to add those options to your knife config :

cookbook_path            '/home/jamiez/sysadmin/chef/cookbooks'
data_bag_path            '/home/jamiez/sysadmin/chef/data_bags'
role_path                '/home/jamiez/sysadmin/chef/roles'

which default to /var/chef/* if absent. Have a look to SharpAlign#setup for the details.

[josqu4red]

Did you work out something about this ?

[davidpelaez]

Sorry for the delay! I did manage to have it working as expected regarding the configuration. However, when I went to align the data bags, I couldn't continue because I had no local data bags and only one in the server I think. It seemed like having no local databags was considered an error. I wanted to save time in handling data bags and ensuring some extra order in our process but this was for a very very fast project and I run out of time to try new things so I kept it very manual without knife-sharp :(