unable to override mysql database using mysql chef coookbook

Question

I am newbie to the chef and its overall eco system, just has an experiment I trying to use mysql cookbook and trying to create a database and set username and password of the same. I am not able to figure out how to get this things done. I have set up my own chef-server on aws ec2 ubuntu instance. Kindly help me out.

Answer 1

Checkout the mysql_test cookbook. where it uses resource mysql_database_user provided from the database cookbook.

Here's the code sample:

include_recipe 'mysql::server'

mysql_connection = {:host => "localhost", :username => 'root',
                :password => node['mysql']['server_root_password']}

mysql_database node['mysql_test']['database'] do
  connection mysql_connection
  action :create
end

mysql_database_user node['mysql_test']['username'] do
  connection mysql_connection
  password node['mysql_test']['password']
  database_name node['mysql_test']['database']
  host 'localhost'
  privileges [:select,:update,:insert, :delete]
  action [:create, :grant]
end

Notice that you need to depend on the database cookbook and the mysql cookbook, and set the following node attributes:

• default['mysql_test']['database'] - mysql database name
• default['mysql_test']['username'] - mysql database user name
• default['mysql_test']['password'] - mysql database user password