How can I get Chef to run apt-get update before running other recipes

Question

Right now I have the following in my Vagrantfile:

config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
    chef.cookbooks_path = \"cookbooks\"
    chef.add_recipe \"apt\"
           


        

Answer 1

just a friendly reminder that adding all those recipes inside the vagrant provision can quickly become unmanageable.

A better pattern is to create a chef role chef/my-fancy-role.rb

# Name of the role should match the name of the file
name "my-fancy-role"

# Run list function we mentioned earlier
run_list(
    "recipe[apt]",
    "recipe[build-essential]",
    "recipe[chef-redis::source]",
    "recipe[openssl]"
)

And then add this role to the Vagrantfile provisioning section:

config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
  chef.roles_path = "chef/roles"
  chef.cookbooks_path = ["chef/site-cookbooks", "chef/cookbooks"]
  chef.add_role "my-fancy-role"
end