Description

This is a Chef report handler that posts failures as JSON to a specified endpoint.

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Exception+and+Report+Handlers

Requirements

Only tested on Chef >= 11.0

Usage

There are two ways to use Chef Handlers.

Method 1 (recommended)

Use the chef_handler cookbook by Opscode. Create a recipe with the following:

include_recipe "chef_handler"

# Install `chef-handler-error-post` gem during the compile phase
chef_gem "chef-handler-error-post"

# load the gem here so it gets added to the $LOAD_PATH, otherwise chef_handler
# will fail.
require 'chef/handler/error_post'

# Activate the handler immediately during compile phase
chef_handler "Chef::Handler::ErrorPost" do
  source "chef/handler/error_post"
  action :nothing
end.run_action(:enable)

Method 2

Install the gem ahead of time, and configure Chef to use them:

gem install chef-handler-error-post

Then add to the configuration (/etc/chef/solo.rb for chef-solo or /etc/chef/client.rb for chef-client):

require "chef/handler/error_post"
report_handlers << Chef::Handler::ErrorPost.new
exception_handlers << Chef::Handler::ErrorPost.new

Example output

See report_data.json.failure

Todo

License and Author

Author:: Jake Pelletier https://github.com/Ghjnut

ghjnut/chef-handler-error-post