How do i run a chef recipe locally on a node?

petulia3478

If you are running a chef recipe locally on a node, you can run it in the following way.

The recipe is a simple creating a file with the content "hello chef"

$ more hello.rb 
file '/tmp/motd' do
  content 'hello chef'
end

Running the recipe locally.

chef-client --local-mode hello.rb  
[2018-05-03T22:17:36+01:00] INFO: Started chef-zero at chefzero://localhost:1 with repository at /home/parallels/chef-repo
  One version per cookbook

[2018-05-03T22:17:36+01:00] INFO: Forking chef instance to converge...
Starting Chef Client, version 13.8.5
[2018-05-03T22:17:36+01:00] INFO: *** Chef 13.8.5 ***
[2018-05-03T22:17:36+01:00] INFO: Platform: x86_64-linux
[2018-05-03T22:17:36+01:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 27766
[2018-05-03T22:17:36+01:00] INFO: The plugin path /etc/chef/ohai/plugins does not exist. Skipping...
[2018-05-03T22:17:37+01:00] INFO: Run List is []
[2018-05-03T22:17:37+01:00] INFO: Run List expands to []
[2018-05-03T22:17:37+01:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for admin
[2018-05-03T22:17:37+01:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2018-05-03T22:17:37+01:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
resolving cookbooks for run list: []
[2018-05-03T22:17:38+01:00] INFO: Loading cookbooks []
Synchronizing Cookbooks:
Installing Cookbook Gems:
Compiling Cookbooks...
[2018-05-03T22:17:38+01:00] WARN: Node admin has an empty run list.
Converging 1 resources
Recipe: @recipe_files::/home/parallels/chef-repo/cookbooks/hello.rb
  * file[/tmp/motd] action create[2018-05-03T22:17:38+01:00] INFO: Processing file[/tmp/motd] action create (@recipe_files::/home/parallels/chef-repo/cookbooks/hello.rb line 1)
[2018-05-03T22:17:38+01:00] INFO: file[/tmp/motd] created file /tmp/motd

    - create new file /tmp/motd[2018-05-03T22:17:38+01:00] INFO: file[/tmp/motd] updated file contents /tmp/motd

    - update content in file /tmp/motd from none to c38c60
    --- /tmp/motd	2018-05-03 22:17:38.063539135 +0100
    +++ /tmp/.chef-motd20180503-27766-gfzlm0	2018-05-03 22:17:38.063539135 +0100
    @@ -1 +1,2 @@
    +hello chef
[2018-05-03T22:17:38+01:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 0.185139673 seconds

Running handlers:
[2018-05-03T22:17:38+01:00] INFO: Running report handlers
Running handlers complete
[2018-05-03T22:17:38+01:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
Chef Client finished, 1/1 resources updated in 01 seconds