ChefCentralizedReportingOnRuns

#BACKSTORY:
#I wanted to get a way to quickly and centrally see how my Chef runs might be going.

#SUMMARY:
#1. I built a quick web service in PHP (details not pertinent here), that takes parameters node, status, and runlist, and saves the results to a database for reporting purposes
#2. I configured Chef to call my PHP web service on each successful and failed chef-client run using Chef.event_handler in my default.rb

#created a helper.rb at ~/POP/cookbooks/MyCookbook/libraries/helper.rb
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require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

module MyHandlers
  class Helper
    def log_run(node_name,run_status,run_list)
      url = 'https://mywebserver.mydomain.com/Chef/chefCheckin.php?node=' + node_name + '&status=' + run_status + '&runlist=' + run_list
      uri = URI.parse(url)
      http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
      http.use_ssl = true
      http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

      request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
      response = http.request(request)
    end
  end
end

#modify my cookbook's default.rb to include my new event handler
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Chef.event_handler do
  on :run_completed do
    MyHandlers::Helper.new.log_run(Chef.run_context.node.name, '0', Array(Chef.run_context.node.run_list).join(','))
  end
  on :run_failed do
    MyHandlers::Helper.new.log_run(Chef.run_context.node.name, '1', Array(Chef.run_context.node.run_list).join(','))
  end
end