[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Setting up a node from command line?

[Adam Jacob < >]

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Will Sargent wrote:
> Well, the docs say "The JSON attributes file can be used to add
> specific Roles </display/chef/Roles> or Recipes
> </display/chef/Recipes> to a node during chef-client/chef-solo run
> time."  Not adding nodes themselves.  So if they can do that, it's
> undocumented.

Thanks for the note - yeah, we should make it clear that nodes get
created when the clients are run.

> So if I'm reading this right, I need to run
> 
> sudo chef-client -j nothing.json -t "token"
> 
> where nothing.json contains { "run_list": [ ] }
> 
> And that will automatically create a node on the system, with nothing
> added to it?

Yes.

Adam

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