Is there any way to delay a resource's attribute resolution until the “execute” phase?

Question

I have two LWRPs. The first deals with creating a disk volume, formatting it, and mounting it on a virtual machine, we\'ll call this resource cloud_volume. The seco

Answer 1

A cleaner way would be to use Lazy Attribute Evaluation. This will evaluate node[:volumes][mount_point][:uuid] during execution time instead of compile

foobar "#{mount_point}" do
  disk_uuid lazy { node[:volumes][mount_point][:uuid] }
  action [:do_stuff]
end