ChefCookbookCopy handler

Copies your cookbooks directory to another location at the end of a Chef run. Particularly useful for multi-step AMI builds where Chef data might be on ephemeral storage between steps.

Either just pull the handler file into a files directory of one of your cookbooks, or download as a Rubygem and source it that way.

# Option 1
cookbook_file "#{node[:chef_handler][:handler_path]}/chef-handler-cookbook-copy.rb" do
  source 'chef-handler-cookbook-copy.rb'
  mode 00600
end

chef_handler 'ChefCookbookCopy' do
  source "#{node[:chef_handler][:handler_path]}/chef-handler-cookbook-copy.rb"
  action :enable
end

# Option 2
chef_gem 'chef-handler-cookbook-copy' do
  action :install
end

chef_handler 'ChefCookbookCopy' do
  source ::File.join(Gem.all_load_paths.grep(/chef-handler-cookbook-copy/).first,
                     'chef-handler-cookbook-copy.rb')
  action :enable
end

• path - Determines root for where to place cookbooks (default: /var/cache/chef/cookbooks)
• mode - Determines mode for path (default: 0755)
• always\_copy - Determines whether to copy regardless of Chef run success (default: true)

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