[chef] Re: Re: renaming a node

[John Merrells < >]

On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Michael Hale wrote:

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

Thanks - that's partly it.

But is there a way to rename the node object that lives within the chef sever?

I was expecting to find this....

knife node rename node_before node_after

But it seems that I'd have to get, create, delete to simulate a rename, having 

copied the run_list over.

The other thing I don't grok yet is the relationship between the client name,

the node name, and the hostname. When chef client registers itself it creates

a client and a node with the hostname for their name and creates a certificate

for the client.... but.... if i change the hostname of the machine is it going to 

break the authentication of the client using the client certificate? Hmm... 

thinking out load really.

John

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