Vagrant, Chef-Solo and Data_Bags

Vagrant.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|

  # Web App Servers
  config.vm.define :app do |app_config|

    app_config.vm.box = "centos-6"
    app_config.vm.network :hostonly, "33.33.33.30"
    app_config.vm.share_folder("tomcat-gz-path", "/tmp/archive/tomcat", "../../archives/tomcat")

    config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|

      chef.cookbooks_path = ["../../cookbooks", "cookbooks"]
      chef.roles_path = "roles"
      chef.data_bags_path = "data_bags"
      chef.add_recipe 'ign-tomcat'

      chef.json.merge!(
          {
              :java   => {
                  :install_flavor => "sun",
                  :version        => "6u25"
              },
              :tomcat => {
                  :java => {
                      :xopt     => {
                          :min_heap => "64m",
                          :max_heap => "128m"
                      },
                      :run_mode => "Staging"
                  },
                  :users => {
                    :group => "tomcat",
                    :user => "tomcat-app",
                    :group_data_bag => "tomcat",
                    :users_data_bag => "tomcat-users"
                  },
                  :group_dBag => "tomcat",
                  :user_dBag => "tomcat-users"
              },
              :apps   => {
                  :profiles => [
                      {
                          :name     => "demo-app",
                          :group_id => "demo-group",
                          :version  => "1.0",
                          :context  => "demo",
                          :enabled  => true
                      },
                      {
                          :name        => "orinoco",
                          :group_id    => "com.ign",
                          :version     => "3.0.3",
                          :remote_base => "http://maven.ign.com/nexus/content/repositories/releases/",
                          :context     => "orinoco#v3",
                          :enabled     => true
                      }
                  ]
              }
          }
      )

    end
  end
end

WorkingDir.md

The important thing about the Vagrant file is the line that reads chef.data_bags_path = "data_bags". The ign-tomcat recipe uses some Data Bags e.g. tomcat_group_details = data_bag_item('groups', 'tomcat') If we look at the working Dir..

$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-rw-r--  1 bpalacio  staff  2807 Mar 16 16:29 Vagrantfile
drwxrwxr-x  2 bpalacio  staff    68 Mar 15 17:31 cookbooks
drwxrwxr-x  7 bpalacio  staff   238 Mar 14 23:01 data_bags
drwxr-xr-x  2 bpalacio  staff    68 Mar 15 17:18 roles

and we cat data_bags/groups/tomcat.json we get:

{
	"id": "tomcat",
	"gid": 270
}

I had trouble with "id":"tomcat-server" for some strange reason.