[chef-dev] Re: clients able to delete themselves / auto-scaling

[Avishai Ish-Shalom < >]

we use a custom daemon polling EC2 api then updating chef-server and
nagios (passive check) with the status of nodes. if node status changes
to "terminated" then it is cleaned up after a grace period.

Regards,
Avishai


On 15/05/12 20:18, Michael Ivey wrote:
> We're running some tests with EC2 auto scaling. It's working great
> when the nodes come up, and we have them deleting their node in the
> chef server when they get scaled down, but we have lots of leftover
> clients, since a client can't delete itself.
>
> How would folks feel about a patch to allow a client to delete itself
> even if it's not an admin?
>
> Does anyone have alternate suggestions that we might have missed?
>
> Thanks.