Feature Request: Inventory support for chef-run

[kmf]

It's known that toml sucks less. (when compared to yaml)

chef-run myservers:beta package ntp action=install

chef-run myservers package nginx

could support various train attributes

[myservers]
[myservers.alpha]
host = "10.0.0.1"
user = "root"
keys = keyfile

[myservers.beta]
host = "10.0.0.2"
user = "jon"
password = "something"

Can support cookbook attributes

package = "nginx"
nginx.port = 8080
nginx.log_dir = '/data/var/log/nginx/'

Just an idea @jonsmorrow

[cheeseplus]

This was already in our backlog when we announced but we've not looked at specifying attributes as that starts to blow out the scope in unexpected ways.

[kmf]

Thanks :) Will the format be similar to toml?

[robbkidd]

It is likely that an inventory format will be in TOML because TOML is less badder.

[cheeseplus]

As we already use TOML for our config I don't see any reason why we'd use another format either.

[kmf]

@marcparadise @tyler-ball any movement on this?

[kmf]

INI support like Ansible?