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

["Kristin Thomsen" < >]

Thanks for the tips! Now it works! :)

> 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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>  wrote:
>> 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' Â (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, 
>>>>>> Â <
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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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>>>
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