chef_changereport_handler Cookbook

Generate chef report after deploy: change list, update summary, etc.

Requirements

Platform

• Debian/Ubuntu

Recipes

• default Enable Chef handler: report what are changed by chef and record update summary to disk

Usage

Use the cookbook by recipe[chef_changereport_handler].

Attributes List

• node['chef_changereport_handler']['working_dir'] - Working directory for generated report and chef handler
• node['chef_changereport_handler']['report_extra_info'] - Extra info you can specify which will be combined into report
• node['chef_changereport_handler']['command_run_after_failure'] - Bash command you want to run, after deployment failure

Examples and Common usage

When deployment failed, run customized command

"chef_changereport_handler": {
  "command_run_after_failure": "echo failed >> /tmp/test.log"
}

Sample output for the report

The handler outputs to log after Chef Run follwing.

========================================================
Chef Update Run On: chef_changereport_handler-DeployChefCookbooks-114-anonymous
Started: 2016-04-10 00:50:07, Ended: 2016-04-10 00:50:07, duration: 0.09s
Update Status: success
Changed List: 2 resources are changed
    - template[/root/chef_update/handlers/changereport_handler.rb]
    - chef_handler[MyChefReport::ChangReportHandler]
Detail info:
    My extra info message

License & Authors

• Author:: DennyZhang001 denny@dennyzhang.com
• Copyright:: 2016, http://DennyZhang.com

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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