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

[Paul Choi < >]

Ah, thank you! That's exactly what I need.

-Paul

On 5/14/10 11:34 AM, Bryan McLellan wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Paul 
> Choi<
>  >
>   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
>
>