[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Get available recipes and apply them to a node

[Thom May < >]

Note that Node#save will only work if your code is running on the chef
server. post_rest will work from anywhere.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 19:24, Daniel DeLeo 
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> Ohai there!
>
> When POSTing to a Chef REST endpoint, you want to *NOT* include the
> resource name. So, the full URL you POST to will be:
>
> http://yourchefserver.example.com:4000/nodes/
>
> Using Chef::REST, this is:
>
> rest_object.post_rest('nodes', node_data)
>
> If it fits your usage scenario, you might want to investigate creating
> Chef::Node objects and then using the Node#save method which takes
> care of all of this for you.
>
> HTH,
> Dan DeLeo
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Matthias Splieth 
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>  wrote:
>> Also, I tried "name = node[:fqdn].chomp.gsub(".","_")" and
>> "chef.post_rest('/nodes/' + name , node)", but I still get a 404...
>>
>>
>> Thom May wrote:
>>>
>>> I think you want to to post_rest to '/nodes/', since you're creating a
>>> new node. If you're saving an existing node,
>>> you should put_rest to '/nodes/hostname_domain_tld'  (ie, gsub(".","_") on
>>> fqdn)
>>> -T
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 17:15, Kristin Thomsen 
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>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for that! I didn't know that run_list can deal with strings :)
>>>> Now I got one problem left: when I try to make a POST to the server, I
>>>> get
>>>> a 404-Error and I don't know why.
>>>> I'm doing a
>>>>
>>>> rest.post_rest('http://localhost:4000/nodes/' + node.name, node)
>>>>
>>>> Any idea why this happens?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> you don't need a chef::recipe - run_list is an array of strings:
>>>>> http://gist.github.com/307825
>>>>>
>>>>> -Thom
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:50,  
>>>>> <
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>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi again!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to get all available recipes and apply them to a node. How can I
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> that? I tried it by loading a cookbook and accessing the recipes of
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> cookbook. But it seems I can only recieve a recipes name by doing so -
>>>>>> but I
>>>>>> need a Chef::Recipe for doing node.run_list << a_recipe!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS: i'm using chef 0.7.16
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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