Step 13: Update the Cookbook to Use Data Bags - AWS OpsWorks

Step 13: Update the Cookbook to Use Data Bags

Important

The AWS OpsWorks Stacks service reached end of life on May 26, 2024 and has been disabled for both new and existing customers. We strongly recommend customers migrate their workloads to other solutions as soon as possible. If you have questions about migration, reach out to the AWS Support Team on AWS re:Post or through AWS Premium Support.

Update your cookbook by adding a recipe that references stack settings that AWS OpsWorks Stacks stores on the instance in a set of data bags. This recipe displays messages in the log about specific stack settings that are stored on the instance. For more information, see the AWS OpsWorks Stacks Data Bag Reference.

To update the cookbook on the instance and to run the new recipe

  1. On your local workstation, in the recipes subdirectory in the opsworks_cookbook_demo directory, create a file named data_bags.rb that contains the following code: 

    instance = search("aws_opsworks_instance").first
layer = search("aws_opsworks_layer").first
stack = search("aws_opsworks_stack").first

Chef::Log.info("********** This instance's instance ID is '#{instance['instance_id']}' **********")
Chef::Log.info("********** This instance's public IP address is '#{instance['public_ip']}' **********")
Chef::Log.info("********** This instance belongs to the layer '#{layer['name']}' **********")
Chef::Log.info("********** This instance belongs to the stack '#{stack['name']}' **********")
Chef::Log.info("********** This stack gets its cookbooks from '#{stack['custom_cookbooks_source']['url']}' **********")

    This recipe displays messages in the log about specific stack settings that are stored on the instance.

  2. At the terminal or command prompt, use the tar command create a new version of the opsworks_cookbook_demo.tar.gz file, which contains the opsworks_cookbook_demo directory and its updated contents.

  3. Upload the updated opsworks_cookbook_demo.tar.gz file to your S3 bucket.

  4. Follow the procedures in Step 5: Update the Cookbook on the Instance and Run the Recipe to update the cookbook on the instance and to run the recipe. In the "To run the recipe" procedure, for Recipes to execute, type opsworks_cookbook_demo::data_bags.

To test the recipe

  1. With the Running command execute_recipes page displayed from the previous procedure, for cookbooks-demo1, for Log, choose show. The execute_recipes log page is displayed.

  2. Scroll down through the log and find entries that look similar to the following:

    [2015-11-14T14:39:06+00:00] INFO: ********** This instance's instance ID is 'f80fa119-81ab-4c3c-883d-6028e52c89EX' **********
[2015-11-14T14:39:06+00:00] INFO: ********** This instance's public IP address is '192.0.2.0' **********
[2015-11-14T14:39:06+00:00] INFO: ********** This instance belongs to the layer 'MyCookbooksDemoLayer' **********
[2015-11-14T14:39:06+00:00] INFO: ********** This instance belongs to the stack 'MyCookbooksDemoStack' **********
[2015-11-14T14:39:06+00:00] INFO: ********** This stack gets its cookbooks from 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/amzn-s3-demo-bucket/opsworks_cookbook_demo.tar.gz' **********

    This recipe displays messages about specific stack settings that are stored on the instance.

In the next step, you will update the cookbook to run recipe code multiple times.