Create a skill assembly

A skill assembly defines a set of skills should be installed or removed from nodes using add and remove rules.

Prerequisites

Skills are defined.

Create a skill assembly

To create a skill assembly, follow these steps:

Create a file named skill-assembly.json and paste in the following skill assembly definition:

{
    "name": "my-skill-assembly",
    "skills": [
        {
        "action": "add",
        "skill": {
            "name": "courier-runner",
            "channel": "stable",
            "value": ["1.4.2"]
            }
        },
        {
        "action": "add",
        "skill": {
          "channel": "stable",
          "name": "chef-gohai",
          "value": ["1.0.1"]
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "add",
        "skill": {
          "name": "shell-interpreter",
          "channel": "stable",
          "value": ["1.0.2"]
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "add",
        "skill": {
          "name": "inspec-interpreter",
          "channel": "stable",
          "value": ["1.0.3"]
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "add",
        "skill": {
          "name": "restart-interpreter",
          "channel": "stable",
          "value": ["1.0.1"]
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "add",
        "skill": {
          "name": "chef-client-interpreter",
          "channel": "stable",
          "value": ["1.0.3"]
        }
      }
    ]
  }

Replace each skill’s version number with the version supported by the version of Chef 360 Platform that you’re running. See the release notes for details.

Create the skill assembly:

chef-node-management-cli management assembly create-assembly --body-file skill-assembly.json

The response is similar to the following:

{
"item": {
    "skillAssemblyId": "e2e66c8a-79ff-4bdc-a4cd-739c3f02f9e9"
  }
}

Save the value of skillAssemblyId, you will use it to create a node cohort.

Troubleshooting

Use the assembly find-one-assembly subcommand to verify that the skill assembly was created or updated successfully:

chef-node-management-cli management assembly find-one-assembly --skillAssemblyId <SKILL_ASSEMBLY_ID>

More information

See the skill assembly documentation

Next steps

Create override settings that define required skill settings.