Description

Provides a custom resource to declare that a directory's contents are entirely managed by Chef. When a node is converged, any files present in the managed_directory that are not managed by Chef will be removed.

Requirements

Platform

Known to work on CentOS and OS X. Should work on other Unix-like systems.

Resource

managed_directory

Ensure that a directory contains only files put there by Chef in this run. Any other files will be removed.

Actions

• :clean - Remove any unmanaged files.

Attribute Parameters

• path - (name attribute) The absolute path to the directory to be managed.
• clean_files - Boolean to determine whether unmanaged files should be removed. Default is true.
• clean_links - Boolean to determine whether unmanaged links should be removed. Default is true.
• clean_directories - Boolean to determine whether unmanaged subdirectories should be removed. Default is false.

Usage

default

Include the default recipe in a run list to make the resource available in your run.

test

The 'test' recipe illustrates use of the managed_directory resource.

test_directories

The 'test_directories' recipe illustrates use of the managed_directory resource when having it clean up unwanted subdirectories.

Caveats

• The directory to be managed must already exist. If you also need to ensure that the directory exists, use the Directory resource separately.

• If you require subdirectories to be managed as well, be sure to set the clean_directories attribute to true

• A file is considered to be managed if there is a resource with a name attribute equal to the file's full path. It will do the wrong thing if this assumption is not true for the contents of your directory.

• Files managed by resources created after this resource is converged (eg, from within a ruby_block or resource later in the run list) will be incorrectly identified as "unmanaged", and then deleted. They will be recreated later in the run, but this creates a window where the file is missing.

License and Author

Authors:

• Zachary Stevens (zts)
• Gregory Ruiz-Ade (gkra)
• Heig Gregorian (hgregorian)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.