Distributing directory trees
You need to seed a directory tree on your nodes. It might be a static website or some backup data that is needed on your nodes. You want Chef to make sure that all the files and directories are there on your nodes. Chef offers the remote_directory resource to handle this scenario. Let's see how you can use it.
Getting ready
Make sure you have a cookbook called my_cookbook, and that the run_list of your node includes my_cookbook, as described in the Creating and using cookbooks recipe in Chapter 1, Chef Infrastructure.
How to do it…
Let's upload a directory with some files to our node:
- Edit your cookbook's default recipe:
mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ subl cookbooks/my_cookbook/recipes/default.rb remote_directory "/tmp/chef.github.com" ...
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