[chef] Re: renaming a node

[Michael Hale < >]

It sounds like you are talking about changing the hostname on the
nodes? Here is how I do that:
http://github.com/mikehale/cookbooks/blob/master/hostname/recipes/default.rb

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:16 PM, John Merrells 
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> How would I go about renaming a node?
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> Before you reply that I should just give the node the right name in the 
> first place... The scenario is that I'm bootstrapping brand new machines 
> via a hosting provider api, and when the machine first starts the only name 
> it has is its ip address. Via that I get the RDNS provided by the hosting 
> provider, and use that as the initial node name. Then chef runs and 
> registers the client/node. Then the appropriate roles are applied to the 
> node and the machine is configured and starts doing its designated job. 
> But... the node now has a silly machine generated name.... it'd be nice if 
> I could easily rename them easily.
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> Thanks for any advice.
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> John
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