[chef] Re: chef-server run list questions

[Vasiliy G Tolstov < >]

В Срд, 19/05/2010 в 14:49 +0100, dreamcat four пишет:
> Vasilly,
> Be sure to use the #chef IRC channel at irc.freenode.net. This is best.
> 
> Anyway, it seems to want your recipes to execute for 1 time only.
> 
> Normally in chef, we expect our recipes are run over and over, at each
> node interval. So this is the "idempotent" part of chef. That means
> whatever the initial conditions, we expect that the computers
> configuration will end up in a consistent, known and repeatable state.
> That is, after any recipe is completed.
> 
> If we want to run something once, then we put guard statements in our
> recipes, and check first whether something has been installed. Eg we
> dont want to install the webserver each time so we use "only_if" or
> "not_if" conditions. So skips over that part of the recipe if done
> once before.
> 
> Therefore we dont expect the recipes to disappear from the run list.
> They should remain and be re-run. This is normal. It just means that
> the 2nd, 3rd time the recipe is just double checking that the things
> it manages are still configured right and in the correct place.
> 

Ok. Thank's for answer. But if i want install all needed software only
once and after that shutdown chef-client and delete authorization token?

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