How do I Force push a recipe to the end of run list Iin Chef

Question

How do I enforce a recipe to run as the last one, no matter where is it placed in the runlist?

Suppose I am having a recipe say cookbook_y:post and the expanded runlist is x1::x2 y1::y2 cookbook_y::post z1::z2,

I want to modify the expanded runlist in during run time (from a recipe, most likely in cookbook_y::post) and push its execution to the end.

What is the best way to achieve this?

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is a concept which you can follow. Since it's not really something Chef supports so you can use tricks with delayed notifications like this:

package 'foo' do
  action :nothing
  delayed_action :install
end

But that has to be on each resource and there is no way to order between different delayed notifications.

I hope that you will find the above explanation informative and it will help you to resolve your query.