Snu Python Cookbook README

A cookbook to perform an opinionated installation of Python using poise-python.

Requirements

This cookbook is continously tested against a matrix of Chef versions and platforms:

• Chef 14
• Chef 13
• Chef 12

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• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Debian 9
• Debian 8

Additional platform support may be added in the future, but Python in RHEL-land seems to get real scary real fast.

Usage

Add the default recipe to your node's run list and/or declare instances of the included resources in a recipe of your own.

Recipes

default

Installs Python 2 and 3 and some default packages using the snu_python resource

Attributes

N/A

Resources

snu_python

A wrapper around the python_runtime resource to install both Python 2 and 3 as well as any supporting packages (e.g. the python3 package that manages /usr/local/bin/python3 on Debian platforms) and some default packages from PIP.

Syntax:

snu_python 'default' do
  python3_packages %w[requests]
  python2_packages %w[requests awscli]
  action :install
end

Actions:

Properties:

snu_python_package

A very light wrapper around the python_package resource that explicitly installs under Python 2 as a default behavior instead of relying on the order the python_runtime resources were declared in.

Syntax:

snu_python_package 'pygithub' do
  package_name 'pygithub'
  python '2'
  version '1.2.3'
  action :install
end

Actions:

Properties:

Maintainers

• Jonathan Hartman jonathan.hartman@socrata.com