Changing the runlist of a machine

[mwrock]

If I change a provisioning recipe with a different set of recipes, when my provisioner reconverges an existing set of machines, the recipe changes are purely additive. New recipes are added but how do I remove existing recipes?

[jkeiser]

You can either set run_list [ ... ] which overwrites the run list, or you can pass the "complete true" argument which says "the things you see here are a complete definition of this machine, please remove anything I didn't write from attributes and run list."

[joshzitting]

Do you run complete true on the machine resource, the batch, or on the whole recipe?

[jkeiser]

This will strip any normal attributes and any other parts of the run list:

machine 'blah' do
  recipe 'foo'
  complete true
end

This will strip other parts of the run list, but not normal attributes:

machine 'blah' do
  run_list [ 'foo' ]
end

You might have to set run_list to [ 'recipe[foo]' ] instead of just 'foo', but I think just 'foo' will work.

[mwrock]

Thanks! That works.