node[elkstack_kibana_password] not working

[martinb3]

@hhoover Kibana Auth seems to generate a random password even if node[elkstack_kibana_password] is present and defined.

[gortazar]

@martinb3 the problem is that the key is not available at compile time, so a new random password is generated even if later on (at converge time) the key is present. To make it work I need to do something like this:

ruby_block 'revision' do
  block do
    node.run_state['elkstack_kibana_password'] = 'test' 
  end
end.run_action(:run)

But then I cannot use an attribute in my recipe to define the password. It seems that attributes are still not available when the resource is executed at compile time.

Reading comments at issue #99 it seems that a standard attribute is not an option. Any ideas on how to fix this? I may provide a pull request for this but need some guidance.

[scalp42]

@gortazar just in case, need to make sure it's wrapped in the lazy method:

file 'myfile' do
  content(lazy { node.run_state['elkstack_kibana_password'] })
end

Should work as intended (wait for execution phase to populate content).