[chef] Re: Re: Ideas on kickstarting a node and auto-applying a role

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Paul Choi 
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 wrote:
> Adding a bit more...
> One idea I have is, if it's possible:
>
> After installing chef-client, the node should run a custom script that does
> a POST to <chef server>/nodes/<nodename>:
> {
>  "run_list": [
>    "role[a]",
>    "role[c]"
>  ]
> }

You can pass a file containing JSON to chef-client with -j. This is
how I've bootstrapped vm-builder (Ubuntu JeOS) nodes using the
firstboot parameter.

Bryan