Chef在文本文件中包含软件包列表

Question

I'm new to chef and planning for disaster recovery plan such that will be having all my configuration files, list of packages installed on system in chef cookbooks. I wondering how could i mention a text file in recipe for the package installation.

I have taken list of packages with

dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt.

I would like chef to read a package from that list one by one and install it. Would be great if someone can guide me on this.

Thanks, Swaroop.

Answer 1

Blueprint could help you for your task. It inspects the system and generates a chef cookbook out of it.

Disclaimer: I haven't tried it, yet. But it looks very interesting.

Answer 2

I am not aware of a way to read a file from a cookbook. But you can install a number of packages with the following code in a recipe:

%w{
package-1
package-2
}.each do |pkg|
  package pkg
end