Poise-Hoist

A cookbook to help automate "attribute hoisting" when using Chef with Policyfiles.

Attribute hoisting is a way to store per-policy-group attributes in a policy to allow similar settings to environment-level attributes in a pre-Policyfile workflow. Just put the desired attributes under a top-level key matching the name of the policy group and add poise-hoist either to your run list or to your cookbook dependencies.

Quick Start

In your Policyfile:

name 'myapp'

run_list 'poise-hoist', 'myapp'

default['staging']['myapp']['debug_mode'] = true
default['prod']['myapp']['debug_mode'] = false

Requirements

Chef 12.2 or newer is required.

Use With Test Kitchen

When testing policies with the policyfile_zero provisioner plugin, the policy group will always be local.

default['local']['myapp']['debug_mode'] = true

Sponsors

Development sponsored by Bloomberg.

The Poise test server infrastructure is generously sponsored by Rackspace. Thanks Rackspace!

License

Copyright 2016, Noah Kantrowitz

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.